Texas parents to collect students’ biometrics; Sydney school loo-turns on fingerprints
Parents in Texas have been given the option to collect DNA samples of their children using freely distributed test kits,…
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Nigeria’s Delta State to capture biometrics of 98K pupils as school meal program resumes
After a three-year hiatus, Nigeria’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is resuming in Delta State, with the capture of…
Biometric passport adoption trend grows amid data privacy, cost, issuance concerns
Multiple developments have emerged from different countries in recent days concerning biometric passports, from Pakistan announcing it has issued first…
Nigerian parliament set to scrutinize new draft data protection law
Any day now, Nigerian lawmakers will receive for deliberation a new draft personal data protection bill, after it was recently…
India, Nigeria, Pakistan discuss sustainable financing for digital ID schemes with ID4Africa
Designing identity authorities based on business models which can generate funds for the proper functioning and sustainability of their systems…
Data security rules needed for Nepalese digital ID, Nigeria’s World Bank funding
A similar lack of data protection rules in Nepal and Nigeria could limit citizens’ confidence in the national digital ID…
Nigeria commission explains removal of voters from biometric registry and fends off rumors
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission is explaining the removal of millions of partially-registered voters from the registry as incomplete online…
Advocates still see a lot of danger for individuals using government digital IDs
Devout advocates of digital IDs run the risk of overlooking some significant misuses and bungled security setups. In principle, digital…
Nigeria reaches 90M digital ID registrations as database capacity issue looms
Nigeria officials say they have so far been able to register the biometrics of almost 90 million citizens for National…
Nigeria finds more ineligible registries in latest biometric deduplication round
The latest round of biometric deduplication by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has discovered many multiple and ineligible registrations…
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