South Korea’s SK Telecom joins FIDO Alliance board
SK Telecom has been appointed to the board of the FIDO Alliance, the global body that develops authentication and security…
APAC
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Singapore tells Meta to expand facial recognition as scam ad concerns in APAC grow
Scams have proliferated on social media and Asia has suffered a plague of it. The surge in social media-enabled scamming…
MyDigital ID PR campaign targeting Malaysian diversity and misconceptions hailed a success
Malaysia struggled with adoption for its national digital ID system but the latest figures suggest this is starting to ease….
GBG chooses AWS to host digital ID cloud, LexisNexis builds its own APAC datacenter
Demand for digital identity solutions is growing worldwide. Service providers meanwhile are selecting different paths in how they build and…
FIDO Alliance Korea Working Group Workshop
FIDO Alliance Korea Working Group Workshop Seoul, South Korea November 14 @ 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm The FIDO Alliance…
All Aboard Securely: Facial Biometrics for Asian Railway & Metro
All Aboard Securely: Facial Biometrics for Asian Railway & Metro September 19, 2025 @ 2 PM (GMT+7) Online RecFaces is…
Global mandates are reshaping digital identity: What CXOs need to know
By Siddharth Gandhi, Chief Operating Officer – APAC, 1Kosmos With governments around the world rewriting the rules of digital identity,…
APAC governments commit to closing CRVS gap by 2030
Governments of Asian and Pacific nations have committed to improving the coverage of their birth registration, civil registration and vital…
Overcoming key challenges in APAC digital government
In a recent webinar hosted by Biometric Update, leading figures from Entrust spoke on “Unlocking digital government in APAC: The…
Entrust delves into APAC digital government opportunity from DPI
Digital service delivery powered by national digital identity programs are sweeping across the Asia-Pacific region, enabling more efficient government operations…
