Nigeria digital ID issuance hits 70M, feat pegged on multi-stakeholder collaboration
The National Identity Management Commission of Nigeria (NIMC) says wide collaboration from the chain of digital identity stakeholders in the…
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Potential ways to avoid digital ID’s dark side concludes ID4Africa trilogy
Different digital identity systems and technologies were considered in ID4Africa’s final livecast of trilogy on ‘The Dark Side of Identity,’…
Togo signs MoU to establish MOSIP digital identity system
Togo’s National Agency for Identification (Agence Nationale de l’Identification, ANID) has signed an agreement with IIIT-Bangalore for collaboration on developing…
Irish biometric public services access card not to be mandatory
The Irish government has backed down from a legal challenge against the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on usage of…
India’s cabinet okays proposal to have Aadhaar biometrics linked with voter IDs
A proposed bill seeking to reform certain provisions of India’s electoral law, dubbed the Representation of the People Act, is…
Large-scale face biometrics deployments, ID document plan details revealed
A series of large biometrics projects, deployments and investments were unveiled in the most-read stories on Biometric Update this week,…
Aadhaar set to expand by 900K with court order to include sex workers
Sex workers in India should be brought into the remit of government services with voter and ration cards and Aadhaar…
Striving for a fairer, more inclusive world – Turing Institute digital identity conference
Do countries need entirely new, purpose-built systems for digital ID rather than expanding existing systems? How reliable are algorithms? What…
Ping launches authorization, BIO-key updates panel for enterprise IAM
Ping Identity has launched dynamic authorization capabilities for its digital identity cloud platform to enable enterprises to control what users can…
Nigerian telco 9Mobile to enroll biometrics of 10M rural residents for national ID
Nigeria’s federal government has appointed 9Mobile to register at least 10 million people living in rural areas for national identity…
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