St. Vincent and the Grenadines looks to MOSIP for national ID pilot
The southern Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is planning to pilot its national digital identity system…
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Facial recognition in Iranian Metro being used as scare tactic to enforce hijab
In Mashhad, Iran, facial recognition systems are being deployed to intimidate women into wearing hijabs, according to Iran International. On…
Nigerian banks, Agric program to require digital ID from customers, beneficiaries
Nigeria’s digital ID, the National Identification Number (NIN), is increasingly getting solicited for different authentication use cases. Recently, the Central…
History repeats with Kenyan High Court blocking Maisha Namba for lack of DPIA
The lack of a data protection impact assessment has scuttled Kenya’s government’s rollout of the Maisha Namba national digital ID…
Malaysia rolls out national digital ID, clarifies biometric enrollment details
Malaysia has begun enrolling citizens for its National Digital ID (NDID), with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim the first…
ECOWAS seeks consultant for regional biometric ID card transition roadmap
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is calling for expressions of interest from consulting firms to develop a…
Uganda suspends over 1.4M SIM cards not linked to users’ biometrics
An ongoing process which started on November 12 to deactivate SIM cards not biometrically registered in Uganda has seen over…
Biometrics ID the living and the dead in Pakistan, from family registration to the morgue
In Pakistan, biometric systems are in use at both ends of the family identity spectrum; to verify its identity, and…
Italian telco introduces eSIM activation with digital ID
Italian telecommunications firm TIM has made it possible for users of embedded SIMs (eSIMs) on its network to complete the…
World Bank document reveals $350M in donor funding for Ethiopia’s national digital ID
A planning document for Ethiopia’s Fayda ID digital identity supplied to the World Bank reveals that the program has been…
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