Digital identity progress means small decrease in 2023 budget for Philippines agency
Progress made by the Philippines digital identity system PhilSys is the reason for a cut in the agency’s proposed budget…
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Philippines officials want to fight driver’s license fraud with facial recognition
Philippines land transportation officials are considering adding a facial recognition capability to their driver’s license renewal portal. This comes as…
Response time of Philippines’ digital ID portal for transport recovering
The Land Transportation Office in Manila, Philippines, announced its Land Transportation Management System portal has recovered following a couple of…
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…
We’re talking, says Philippines government about biometric security provider
A month after a local official made statements that left people worried that a biometrics security contract was in danger,…
MOSIP’s growth examined as Asian digital identity schemes expand in reach, applications
A profile of MOSIP in the Economic Times says the open-source foundational ID system is now up to 71.7 million…
Philippines toolkit will allow digitization, ID verification across local, national govt
UBX, an open finance subsidiary of Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), has launched UrGovPH, a suite of open finance…
Are overly simplistic national ID programs creating more exclusion?
Too many people advocating for digital national IDs make it sound like development programs are just an overlay on a…
Philippines going digital by default? Vietnam’s national IDs ‘introduced’
Vietnam and The Philippines are moving on digital IDs, although only one of the South China Sea nations as part…
Philippines official walks back comments on biometrics contract
The Philippines Land Transportation Office has walked back comments made by an official in a public interview which suggested dissatisfaction…
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