New mobile driving license initiatives unveiled in Europe and the U.S.
Is the digitization of existing credentials leading to digital identity products? A panel discusses mobile driving licenses (mDL) in the…
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‘Cell’ being built in US to net migrants using biometrics and other surveillance
A pair of news reports indicate that the U.S. government is creating an intelligence “cell” that will use electronic surveillance,…
New voices shame US government, tech leaders for muffing AI lead
Has China, which one generation ago was laughed off as a manufacturing threat to the West, already beat the United…
A coordinated federal role in developing a US digital health pass is almost impossible
The idea that the United States could build a standard, nationwide digital health infrastructure over which people could verify their…
Baltimore criticized for forensic biometrics delays, federal tribal program expands
Fingerprint biometrics remain the most widely-used modality for forensic investigations, and a pair of U.S. developments indicate the growth of…
Enhancing digital IDs for Canadian tribes; still shipping paper documents in the U.S.
An Indigenous digital identity company says it has created Canada’s first online status card, or eID, service. OneFeather facilitates the…
Evaluation ordered of biometric screening of displaced Afghans
The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced it is beginning an evaluation of the screening…
Mobile driver’s licenses in Apple Wallet coming to 8 states, TSA checkpoints
Eight states have committed to adopting Apple Wallet for mobile driver’s license and state digital ID storage, the tech giant…
Greater threats identified for Afghanistan’s highly detailed biometric databases
Further threats have been unearthed for government biometric databases in Afghanistan, which could allow the identification of millions of people,…
Records request finds U.S. states mild about Apple mobile driver’s licenses
In an example of just how charmed Apple is with its own genius, its executives decided the United States wanted…
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