More than a quarter million Rohingya refugees have legal ID after biometric registration
More than 270,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have been biometrically registered and received identity cards, the first time many of…
Bangladesh
Homeland Security Expo
Homeland Security Expo Dhaka, Bangladesh December 9-10, 2019 Homeland Security Expo is an international exhibition for defence, internal security, public…
Bangladesh Election Commission fights voter fraud with Crossmatch biometric technology
Crossmatch announced today that it has completed delivery of 150,000 of its optical fingerprint modules for use in electronic voting…
Veridos set to win Bangladesh ePassport contract
The Daily Star is reporting that Veridos is set to win the contract to provide ePassports to Bangladesh. The cabinet…
Bangladesh banks look at biometric verification options for illiterate clients
Bangladesh Bank this week said that scheduled banks should deploy biometric verification options – including fingerprint, iris and facial recognition…
Bangladesh begins issuing biometric national ID cards
The Bangladesh government is issuing national ID cards with biometric details to citizens this week following the inauguration of the…
Bangladesh mobile users only allowed to register 5 SIMs against each NID
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decreased the maximum number of SIMs that prepaid mobile phone customers can register against…
100 million mobile SIMs registered with subscribers’ biometric details in Bangladesh
According to a report in BDNews24.com, over 100 million mobile phone SIMs have been re-registered with the biometric details of…
Court says biometric SIM registration is legal in Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi Higher Court has declared that ongoing biometric SIM registrations using fingerprints is legal. The court rejected a petition…
Bangladesh sets hefty fines for misuse of biometrics data
The Bangladesh government has assured mobile phone users that their privacy would not be in jeopardy after they undergo biometric…
