Office Depot to offer biometric identity and background check services from Telos ID
Office Depot, Inc. has announced an alliance with Telos Identity Management Solutions (Telos ID) to offer identification and background check…
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Valid to provide biometric ID cards as part of award-winning smart city initiative in Brazil
São Caetano do Sul has received an InovaCidade award from Smart Business Brazil for a smart city project managed by…
Taking biometric ID from rumors to government service delivery in Kenya
Kenya’s national ID project Huduma Namba was a topic of much discussion at ID4Africa 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The…
New rules for biometric EU identity and residence cards given final approval
The European Union’s Council has approved new rules for biometric fingerprint and photo security features of identity and residence cards,…
DPS rolls out encrypted photo service in Ireland for online biometric passport renewals
Biometric photo ID company DPS has rolled out an encrypted photo ID technology across Ireland in partnership with the Irish…
IOM to raise awareness of ECOWAS biometric ID card for regional travel
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched a cross-border public education program to raise awareness of the ECOWAS National…
Nigeria moves to implement biometric ECOWAS card with $41M MoU
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Nigerian government’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and Euphoria Press…
EU Parliament approves unified biometric and biographic database of 350 million people
The European Union Parliament has voted to approve the Common Identity Repository (CIR) to aggregate the biographic and biometric data…
HSBC Uruguay deploys FacePhi biometric identification technology
FacePhi has announced a new partnership with HSBC Uruguay, a subsidiary of the HSBC Group, one of the world’s largest…
Belarus to begin issuing biometric passports next January
Alyaksei Byahun, head of the Citizenship and Migration Department of the Belarus Ministry of Internal Affairs, recently confirmed that on…
