World Bank official proposes digital identity steps to drive inclusion in West, Central Africa
The World Bank Vice President for Western and Central Africa, Ousmane Diagana, says the continent has strong digital growth potential,…
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PhilSys to launch mobile version of biometric PhilID card
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has announced that it is working to launch the mobile version of the biometric Philippine…
The PKI and device authentication fallacy
By Jay Meier, SVP North American Operations at FaceTec According to Verizon’s annual 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, weak user…
Online digital ID advances with 2M Nigerian voters registered
Nigeria’s Independent electoral commission (INEC) has announced that more than two million new potential voters have already completed the online…
Pakistan secures family trees, IDs foreign residents, prepares for electronic voting
A series of developments in Pakistan span a new digital ID card verification system; a way for people to check…
Samsung smartphones and OpenTable prepare for COVID health passes
Samsung and the Commons Project Foundation are collaborating to make SMART Health Cards available within in Samsun Pay digital wallets…
UK Post Office moves into digital ID space with biometric app developed by Yoti
10,500 of the 11,500 Post Office branches across the UK now allow people to pick up parcels using the biometric…
India’s COVID vaccination management system ‘issued over 110M unique health IDs’
India’s biometrics-backed COVID vaccination management system, CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) has issued 110,542,794 unique health IDs (UHIDs) as part…
Concerns over Taliban accessing aid agency biometric data
People in Afghanistan are fearful of the Taliban accessing personal information captured and stored by aid agencies including biometric data…
Suprema ID completes MOSIP compliance program for RealScan-G10 biometric scanner
Suprema ID has announced that it successfully passed a self-compliance test for the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) system…
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