Nigerian banks, Agric program to require digital ID from customers, beneficiaries
Nigeria’s digital ID, the National Identification Number (NIN), is increasingly getting solicited for different authentication use cases. Recently, the Central…
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History repeats with Kenyan High Court blocking Maisha Namba for lack of DPIA
The lack of a data protection impact assessment has scuttled Kenya’s government’s rollout of the Maisha Namba national digital ID…
Deutsche Telekom works with Bielefeld University students on digital identity project
Deutsche Telekom and Bielefeld University are partnering for the self-sovereign access management (SESAM) university cooperation project in which experts from…
Okta reveals October security breach was much more damaging
After reassuring the public that only one percent of their customers had been affected by the security breach reported in…
Papua New Guinea issues RFI for digital ID ecosystem, 6 other DPI projects
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) of Papua New Guinea has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for…
Putting individuals back in charge of their own identities
By Mike Tuchen, CEO of UK-founded digital identity scale-up, Onfido From letting hotels keep copies of our passports to handing…
Biometrics and AI offer mix of questions and answers for police, fraud prevention
Advances in biometrics for law enforcement and fraud prevention are prominent among the week’s most-read articles on Biometric Update. Clearview…
TransUnion research shows most in US fear identity fraud, but rates keep climbing
Digital identity fraud trends published at yearend in the U.S. and globally by a credit-reporting firm seem to be contradictory…
Swiss university, startups partner on self-sovereign identity
Zug-based startup Partisia Blockchain and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) have announced they are…
NZ group briefs ministers on digital ID for authentication
Digital Identity New Zealand (DINZ), a digital ID advocacy group, has briefed three incoming New Zealand Ministers – Melissa Lee,…
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