New biometric technologies and old controversies top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
The most widely read articles on Biometric Update this week cover new innovations and solutions for liveness, facial recognition, vehicles…
digital identity
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UK Post Office offers digital identity services on government marketplace
The UK Post Office has joined the Government Digital Framework’s GCloud11 marketplace to offer a suite of online and in-person…
Digital ID in Africa this week: biometric verification for Somali military pay, SIM registration in Tanzania
African biometric and digital ID issues continue apace both on and off the continent. In Somalia a scheme to use…
UK and Singapore government services to collaborate on digital government services
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) and Singapore’s GovTech Agency to…
Veri5Digital raises $2 million to ramp up Aadhaar biometric services and international presence
Biometric identity verification startup Veri5Digital has raised $2 million in a Series A funding round to scale its identity solutions…
Payments, travel, and facial recognition top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Biometrics, and in particular facial recognition, for payments and travel dominated the most-read stories on Biometric Update for the past…
MOSIP – Biometrics and Devices Workshop
MOSIP – Biometrics and Devices Workshop Bengaluru, India August 21-22, 2019 The MOSIP project at IIIT-Bengaluru wants to bring together…
Yoti to expand global biometrics business after $10M investment at over $100M valuation
Yoti has raised £8.7 million (US$10.6 million) in new equity investment, according to EU Startups, and intends to use the…
German insurer taps IDnow for biometric remote customer onboarding
German insurance company Provinzial NordWest Group has chosen IDnow to provide biometric video identification for digital onboarding to attract younger,…
Atos negotiating to acquire digital identity management firm IDnomic
Digital transformation company Atos has entered into negotiations to acquire digital identity management provider IDnomic to enable the creation of…
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