Digital ID in Africa this week: mammoth biometric registration plans for Nigeria and Interpol in the Sahel
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s…
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‘Prone to hacking’: expert witness in Kenya’s Huduma Namba hearings first round
“[The National Integrated Identity Management System] thus is an archaic design compared to modern-day systems architecture and can be rightly…
Q2 Open integrates Socure digital identity verification to reduce financial fraud
Q2 Holdings has signed a strategic partnership with digital identity verification company Socure to enhance Q2 Open’s CorePro, a Banking-as-a-Service…
UNECA head adds economic expertise and diversity to ID4Africa Advisory Board
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary Dr. Vera Songwe has joined ID4Africa’s Board of Advisors to add…
CITRIS Policy Lab publishes digital ID and facial recognition reports to support ID2020 and Good ID
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Policy Lab has published a pair of white…
Evident ID launches data privacy compliance tool for GDPR and CCPA
With Europe’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) substantially raising the bar for privacy…
Passbase raises €3.3M in Seed funding to challenge biometric IAM market with privacy protection
Digital identity startup Passbase has raised €3.3 million (US$3.6 million) in a Seed funding round to fuel the development of…
Sophisticated online insurance fraud skyrockets with online, mobile transactions
Online fraud complications will soon emerge for insurance companies due to an increased interest in mobile apps and online insurance…
Biometrics veteran and digital identity expert joins FacePhi advisory board
Digital identity expert Bianca Lopes has joined the advisory board of fintech biometric company FacePhi to help build up its…
Trulioo powers biometric digital identity verification offering from Refinitiv
The partnership announced earlier this year between Trulioo and Refinitiv has led to the launch of biometric digital identity verification…
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