Cameroon launches free birth certificate issuance operation for 80K pupils in exams
About 80,000 primary school children, who do not have birth certificates, but who are preparing to write the First School…
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Japan unveils new digital ID card design with no gender
Japan has joined the ranks of countries eliminating gender markers from its national identification card. The government has unveiled a…
Over 3M digital IDs distributed in Afghanistan, 900k activated in Jordan
Afghanistan’s National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) says 3.12 million national digital ID cards have been districted in the country…
MPs challenge proposal to spend $15M on Ghana Cards for children
Opposition lawmakers in Ghana’s parliament have stood up against a proposal by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to spend…
Fingerprint biometrics on ID cards legally invalid, but EU top court declines change
The European Union’s top court has ruled that governments that mandate handing over fingerprint biometrics for identity cards are not…
Pakistan introduces chip-based biometric passport and updated fee structure
E-passports, a travel document providing security enhancements over legacy machine-readable documents, are being issued to Pakistani nationals by the Directorate…
Presentation attack detection competition for ID cards coming to IJCB 2024
At the International Joint Conference of Biometrics (IJCB) 2024, the first competition on presentation attack detection (PAD) for ID cards,…
Online-only processing of biometric IDs proposed in Israel
Certain Israel biometric IDs would be updatable online under a proposed law presented to that country’s national legislature this week….
Smart Engines AI can scan multiple ID documents at once to simplify verification
Software development company Smart Engines has developed AI for multi-document recognition to fight fraud. The AI can recognize dozens of…
Regula rolls out upgraded ID document scanner for border security
Regula, the Latvia-based biometric identity verification and forensics research firm, has released an upgrade to its forensic-level document scanning capabilities…
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