Sierra Leone reaches 93 percent national ID coverage, 80 percent services digitized
Sierra Leone says it has recorded a 93 percent civil registration and national ID issuance coverage rate, with at least…
digital identity
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São Tomé and Principe pilots MOSIP-based national digital ID system
São Tomé and Principe, Africa’s second smallest country by area and population, with just around a thousand square kilometres and…
Phygital IDs and PPPs: IN Groupe CEO Agnès Diallo on realizing identity’s promise
IN Groupe is one of the oldest companies in the identity space, but promoted Agnès Diallo to the CEO role…
Aylo stages digital revolt over age verification law as it shutters porn sites in France
Arrête! Censorious government is throwing a sheet over your cinéma épicé! Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité! A message in this spirit of…
LSEG leads child identity theft campaign
When Renata Galvão was just six years old, her identity was stolen and used to amass a US$400,000 debt. After…
DSIT seeks firm for ‘independent assurance’ to improve DIATF certification scheme
The UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has issued a tender for an organization to assist third-party conformity…
‘Unhappy path’ to identity verification costing businesses: Women In Identity
The hidden costs of failing to build inclusion into identity systems during the design phase are unclear, even to organizations…
Login.gov stumbles in federal effort to modernize digital identity
A new audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has delivered a sobering assessment of Login.gov, the General Services…
Hypr partners with HID on unified access control, launches KYE, biometric tools
U.S.-based decentralized authentication company Hypr has announced a new partnership with HID, which has resulted in two product integrations. The…
UK startup’s accreditation, £18M One Login contracts to build digital ID trust
Onboarding and KYC startup Orchestrating Identity has been double-certified by the Kantara Initiative as both an Identity Service Provider (IDSP)…
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