UK Home Office fails to collect asylum seeker biometrics, sits on report
The failure to collect fingerprints or face biometrics from asylum seekers and illegal migrants who then absconded in their hundreds…
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UK outlines plans to increase biometrics for immigration, travel
“By 2025, the UK border will look very different,” states the New Plan for Immigration: Legal Migration and Border Control,…
FaceTec says use of biometric liveness solution grew nearly 60% in Q2
Privately held 3D face biometrics company FaceTec says its second-quarter revenue rose 81 percent over the same period last year….
A buyout, private investment and geo expansion for biometric KYC firms
It has been a week of strategy for biometric KYC vendors. First, Japanese eKYC vendor Liquid Inc said it is…
Zimbabwean start-up lands €250K award with biometric verification solution
VaxiGlobal, a biometrics-based vaccine verification solution developed in 2019 by a trio of health workers in Zimbabwe, has won the…
Somehow unsure your gov’t agency needs ID verification? New tool might convince you
An obscure financial management program for U.S. federal agencies has created a digital tool to convince government officials to use…
Nigeria issues 700K biometric bank verification numbers between April and July
Figures attributed to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicate that a total…
Biometric technology plays increasing role in fraud prevention for crypto and decentralized finance
By David Britton, Vice President of Strategy for Global Identity & Fraud at Experian The recent flurry of news regarding…
Financial companies get MFA, right? Right?
If there is an industry most people would think is on top of things related to identity authentication, it probably…
US law could give nation 50 digital IDs backed by many more databases
Digital ID legislation that could not even get out of committee last year in the U.S. House of Representatives has…
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