Sri Lanka to introduce digital wallet for ID documents as public payments digitized
Citizens in Sri Lanka will be able to carry around some of their personal documents such as passports, birth and…
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Expanded Smart Engines customer base leads to 113M ID document scans in 2021
Smart Engines witnessed significant progress not only in the commercialization and adoption of its products in 2021, but also in…
Malawi: Biometric passport production could halt, staff arrested ‘as human bait’
The situation facing Techno Brain in Malawi appears to be deteriorating. In further developments since the firm’s passport contract cancellation…
Britain proposes path to free Voter Card, digital identity potential for polls
A paper published by the UK government outlines what will be accepted as photographic identity at future elections in Great Britain,…
Idemia I&S patent filing for ID document scanning published
Idemia Identity & Security USA has had an application for an ID document-scanning patent published, while its French parent company…
Quebec considers including financial documents in digital ID wallet
Canadian province Quebec is considering the possibility of including documents issued by private companies, such as proof of insurance, in…
India’s new biometric passport now ready for rollout, $1B service deal concluded
The new generation of biometric passports originally slated to launch broadly in 2021 is now set for rollout in India,…
Storing personally identifiable data needed for authentication wins a patent
A patent has been issued for a way of storing anonymized identifiers rather than storing personally identifiable information. It is…
Greece to introduce full mobile version of digital ID, driving licenses
By this coming Easter, Greeks will be able to carry the downloaded full version of their digital IDs and mobile…
IN Groupe wins award for France’s national eID, biometric passport deal for Seychelles
Two national ID events round off a busy 2021 for IN Groupe; an award for the new biometric ID card…
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