Biometrics funding and contracts bringing opportunity also mean more scrutiny
The public announcement of a French digital ID app supplied by Idemia and partners which avoids biometrics, and a tender…
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France announces user-controlled mobile digital identity app for use with national ID
France announces a new system for proving digital identity via a smartphone, while formally discontinuing the ill-fated Alicem app of 2019….
Argentine judge demands answers on how police got irregular biometrics access
Argentine national security agencies have acquired irregular access to the biometric records of seven million people, including the president, and…
Biometrics infrastructure contracts, investment plans indicate sustained market growth
An indication of things to come in mobile biometrics from Fingerprint Cards was the most widely-read article of the week…
NATO to tender for biometric enrollment devices for Kosovo forces
The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency has published a new notification of intent (NOI) document setting out an intent…
Statewatch warns of worsening ethnic profiling risk in EU as identity systems expand
Monitoring organization Statewatch warns that new biometric identity controls used by police and immigration authorities in the European Union could…
Colombia’s civil status registry to deploy Thales biometric scanners
Thales is planning to provide fingerprint scanners to Colombia’s National Civil Status Registry for better management of biometric enrollments and…
Rumored Idemia $4.6B sale could split enterprise, government business
Another major corporate change could be coming for Idemia, as its U.S. parent is considering selling the global biometrics and…
Biometrics providers breaking records, making deals: stocks roundup
Synaptics is reporting earnings records with strong IoT growth in another encouraging sign for investors, as Liquid Avatar moves towards…
‘Datafication’ of EU borders and ballooning private-sector spending prompted by migrant crisis
Spending by European Union agencies on border-related technology and surveillance rocketed from 2014 onwards amid the migrant crisis, reports Statewatch,…
