Court challenge frees up NADRA to restart ID card issuance to trans people
Pakistan’s national database and registry, NADRA, is resuming issuing ID cards to transgender people using an X to designate a…
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Somalia begins issuing new biometric digital ID developed with NADRA’s help
Somalia has launched its own biometric identity card system with the head of the government expressing hope it will help…
Ex-NADRA chair argues more biometrics use can greatly improve Pakistan’s elections
A former Chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority of Pakistan (NADRA), Tariq Malik, has posited that the deployment…
Pakistan data protection bill approaches vote and draws criticism from Privacy International
Pakistan’s legislature is considering a data protection bill that defines biometrics as “sensitive personal data” and mandates the creation of…
Pakistan expands project for biometric identification of unidentified bodies and patients
After delays, the caretaker government in Punjab has collaborated with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and the healthcare…
Governments, vendors less skittish about promoting facial recognition sales
News of Colombia’s decision to buy facial recognition software from a Spanish company for its national police force lacks one…
Still dealing with leak fallout, NADRA officials resist investigations
There appears to be no central government policy in Pakistan for how to handle a catastrophic divulging and selling of…
Pakistan ID agency head resigns, citing ‘polarized political environment’
The chairman of Pakistan’s digital ID agency NADRA, Tariq Malik, has resigned from his position in the wake of a…
Facial recognition used to identify victims of deadly train accident in India
Railway authorities have used facial recognition technology to determine the identity of at least 50 dead bodies from the recent…
NADRA adds iris to automated biometric identification platform with Iris ID
Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has introduced iris biometrics as the third ID verification option on its Automated…
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