Innovatrics biometrics remove 200,000 ineligible voters from electoral rolls in Guinea
The use of facial recognition technology from Innovatrics in Guinea’s biometric voter registration program has allowed the system to be reused…
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ID4Africa calls on Facebook to settle face biometrics bias question through NIST testing
The presence of demographic differences in face biometrics performance has dogged increasingly dogged the modality, and been referred to in…
Biometrics deployed by Interpol to fight terrorism in Africa’s Sahel region
The breadth of applications of biometrics is evident in this week’s roundup of news in Africa, from counter terrorism activities…
Identification from a safe distance trends this week in biometrics news
Biometrics solutions for safe work and financial transactions continue to be launched, and increasingly rolled out, as the world plans…
Biometrics companies and financial services continue contactless courtship
Biometrics and digital ID solutions for safe work and financial transactions continue to be launched, and increasingly rolled out, as…
Nigeria shows biometric flexibility, slow progress on voter registers continues across Africa
Biometric voting, and the registration required, are once again proving problematic in several African countries. Somalia will miss its target…
Biometrics for charity in Nigeria, electoral audit demand in Malawi, WURI funding for West Africa
While in recent weeks the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic led to the disabling of biometric systems based on fears of spreading…
Firms expand African biometrics coverage, COVID-19 aid raises data protection concerns
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across Africa, public and private reactions also continue to develop. Noticeable this week…
Coronavirus becomes Africa’s new biometric election registration variable, Côte d’Ivoire ID signup slow
Biometric voter registers require biometric voter registration. Neighboring Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire are both due to go to biometrically secured…
Liveness detection, FIDO2 and RSA grab headlines but Idex Biometrics tops this week’s news
RSA Conference managed to go ahead this week, and grabbed a fair share of headlines, as did FIDO2 and passwordless…
