Biometrics and identity papers become new US immigration battleground
On March 12, 2025, the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule that reactivates a…
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Idemia to supply Armenia with biometric passports, ID cards by second half of 2026
A consortium between Idemia Identity Security France and ACI Technology S.à.rl has been selected to support the government of Armenia…
Malta’s ID card racket stirs political strife
Malta’s illegal identity card scandal, linked to government agency Identità, continues to stir political uproar in the country. The oppositional…
ID card PAD competition at IJCB 2025 builds on lessons from inaugural event
The winning entries to a competition for technologies to detection presentation attacks using ID cards will be presented during the…
Regula ID document fraud detection now covers 15K different types
Regula now has 15,000 document templates from over 250 countries and jurisdictions in its identity document database. The identity verification…
Nigeria, Sierra Leone warn groups illegally issuing national ID cards
ID authorities of the West African nations of Nigeria and Sierra Leone have warned of the existence of entities illegally…
UK govt not giving up on Voter ID for 2025 local elections
Removing voter ID from the UK’s elections is not on the table, Minister for Homelessness and Democracy Rushanara Ali confirmed…
Moldova plans distribution of biometric capture devices to its diplomatic missions
The Moldovan government has decided to facilitate the process of issuing passports and digital ID cards for its citizens abroad….
Cameroon opens new ID card production centre as issuance gains traction
A major center for the production of identity documents has been commissioned in Cameroon’s economic capita, Douala. The Minister of…
Cameroonians ecstatic as issuance of new national ID card takes off
Scores of Cameroons this week began collecting their new generation national ID cards, marking a landmark era for ID card…
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