Saudi Arabia plans imminent rollout of biometric passport, UAE hits 2M digital IDs
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is planning to introduce a biometric passport in the coming months with advanced security features…
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HID Global showcases new Estonian biometric passport with world-first features, personalization
Citizens of Estonia will notice a range of new features as they start receiving the all-new biometric passport when they…
Smart Engines’ digital ID scanning to speed up Russian Railways ticket purchases
Smart Engines has entered a new partnership with Russian Railways to speed up ticket purchases using artificial intelligence and digital…
Spanish police, Europol seize thousands of counterfeit digital ID cards, passports in raid
Almost 2,000 counterfeit passports and ID cards for 56 nationalities and supplies of digital ID card chips were seized in…
Philippines opens digital ID process for infants
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) says progress continues to be made with registration for the biometric national identity card (PhilID)…
Non-biometric EU ID cards no longer valid to enter the UK
Crossing the UK border with a national identity card is no longer possible for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens, as…
EAB expert sees long-term benefit to biometric border control in birth certificate standards
The effectiveness of biometric identity verification systems at European borders would improve over the long term if birth certificates were…
25K Afghan biometric passports ready to be issued, 100K more to follow
Afghanistan has begun to issue passports again after months of delay which hampered the attempts of many to leave the…
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Smart Engines adds EU digital IDs in document scanning SDK update
Smart Engines has added EU digital ID cards and residence documents scanning to its Smart ID engine and boosted the application’s…
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