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Bangladesh digital ID registration to include biometrics

Sep 21, 2021, 7:16 am EDT

Bangladesh has announced the collection of citizens’ biometric data for the issuance of digital identification numbers, while over 30 million…

Sep 16, 2021, 3:37 pm EDT

The livecast for International ID Day 2021 included the first country presentations in ID4Africa’s new I-On-Africa series. The directors general…

Sep 7, 2021, 8:54 am EDT

Facebook has apologized and disabled an artificial intelligence algorithm said to be at the origin of a popped-up message labelling…

Sep 1, 2021, 11:28 am EDT

Members of a ‘stateless’ community in Kenya known as the Shona have received digital ID cards from the Kenyan government,…

Aug 9, 2021, 9:36 am EDT

The Lagos State government of Nigeria says it is today beginning an online biometric verification process for 5,984 pensioners under…

Aug 4, 2021, 3:20 pm EDT

850 hospitals are suing Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) in a dispute over the requirement to install equipment to…

Aug 4, 2021, 2:15 pm EDT

Zwipe has booked a $1.9 million deal to supply its Zwipe Pay ONE biometric payment card technology to Beautiful Card Corporation…

Jul 30, 2021, 5:55 pm EDT

What do we want from digital ID? And is it the solution for problems faced by societies across the world?…

Jul 26, 2021, 10:54 am EDT

Biometric surveillance is facing resistance globally. It is doubtless less successful than opponents would like but the resistance cannot be…

Jul 20, 2021, 1:16 pm EDT

MacDonald Wella, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WEMAS, a Malawian health insurance firm which uses biometrics to process insurance…