| View in Browser | Subscribe Today | | | | | | Daily News : Mar 31, 2025 | | | | Africa must take advantage of South Africa’s G20 presidency to expand DPI gains: Experts | | Many African countries are already at full throttle with regard to their digital public infrastructure (DPI) journeys, but governments have…Read More | | | | Understanding the results of DHS S&T’s RIVTD biometrics assessment | | The Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration, held by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)… | | Supermarket chain Asda chooses FaiceTech for facial recognition surveillance | | British supermarket chain Asda kicked off a live facial recognition trial in five of its… | | AI agents and verifiable credentials: A match made in heaven? | | With the arrival of AI agents, businesses are looking at growing future opportunities. One of… | | Malta’s ID card racket stirs political strife | | Malta’s illegal identity card scandal, linked to government agency Identità, continues to stir political uproar… | | Retailers are at risk of ID fraud – better defenses are now imperative | | By Jimmy Roussel, CEO, IDScan.net Retail ID fraud has risen 22.7 percent since December 2024,… | | Demand for biometric authentication rises among gambling platforms | | Gambling is emerging as a potential gold mine for biometrics and digital identity firms, as… | | NYC facial recognition startup scraping social media to identify protestors | | Outrage and biometric data privacy compliance concerns related to the use of images scraped from… | | Socure makes the case for advanced biometric digital identity verification | | Socure continues its campaign to call attention to ID fraud risk and the best mitigation… | | Workplace IDV gains steam: Yoti, Persona, 1Kosmos streamline employee onboarding | | Workplace identity verification (IDV) is increasingly becoming popular among enterprises. Notable incidents such as the… | | PNG digital transformation gets boost from Visa, e-signature platform | | Economic growth and financial efforts in Papua New Guinea (PNG) will get a significant boost… | | Nigeria inches towards mandatory citizen registration if new regulation approved | | Nigeria is in the process of making registration for national digital ID compulsory for every… | | Face biometrics popularity comes with opportunity and risk | | Face biometrics are increasingly the preferred way for people to complete processes from international travel… | | NIST updates differential privacy guidelines to enable more data analytics | | Guidelines for using differential privacy from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have… | | Sumsub recognized for digital inclusion efforts, seeing continued growth | | Sumsub’s recent digital services inclusion campaign has resulted in the company being invited to join… | | Aadhaar biometric testing ramps up with UIDAI challenge, PAD compliance | | Fingerprint biometrics testing in India has ramped up with authorities requiring certification of scanners based… | | InfoCert liveness passes CLR Cert tests for PAD, injection attack detection | | InfoCert has received certificates of conformity to the international standards for biometric Presentation Attack Detection… | | World Wallet courting connection with Visa for stablecoin payments | | CoinDesk reports that Sam Altman’s World Network is in talks with Visa to bring Visa… | | Age assurance faceoff between Apple, Meta notches up with Utah app store law | | Utah’s governor has signed the App Store Accountability Act, making it law. A piece from… | | Canada’s privacy regulator releases results of age assurance consultation | | The key learnings are in from an exploratory consultation on age assurance by Canada’s Office… | | | | More News | Guest Posts | Features |
| | | | | | | | Company news, announcements | | | | Japan’s tech giants, Facephi, Innovatrics climb NIST face biometrics ranks | | The mix of companies represented on the leaderboard of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Face Recognition Technology…Read More | | | | 1Kosmos announces FIDO-compliant 1Kosmos 1Key | | 1Kosmos, a company that specializes in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, has announced 1Kosmos… | | Digital ID inclusivity focus of partnership between Credas, IDGO | | Cardiff-based identity verification provider Credas Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with IDGO, a licensed… | | Corsight first in facial recognition certified to ISO AI explainability standard | | Corsight AI is the first facial recognition provider in the world to be certified for… | | Dock Labs teams up with Identity Fusion on digital ID upgrade | | Reusable digital identity provider Dock Labs will be providing its technology to Identity Fusion, the… | | HYPR declares Identity Renaissance in report on state of passwordless ID assurance | | In its latest report on the risks and challenges facing digital identity assurance, Hypr takes… | | InfoCert liveness passes CLR Cert tests for PAD, injection attack detection | | InfoCert has received certificates of conformity to the international standards for biometric Presentation Attack Detection… | | Intellicheck, Raonsecure invest in new IDV markets for steady growth | | Market and investment strategy loom over the latest set of financial results from digital identity… | | New Workforce MFA from iProov offers scalable, device-independent authentication | | A new biometric authentication product from iProov aims to address the scourge of account takeover.… | | Microsoft’s passkeys shift steers over 1B users towards biometrics | | Microsoft is rolling out a new sign-in experience — and considering the vast number of… | | NEC supplying biometric walkthrough gates for Japanese airports | | Biometric walkthrough gates from NEC are coming to three of Japan’s largest airports to streamline… | | Nect nets revenue-based financing of €2.5M to expand digital ID market reach | | Hamburg-based digital identity firm Nect has secured €2.5 million (US$2.7M) in revenue-based financing from Round2… | | Regula ID document fraud detection now covers 15K different types | | Regula now has 15,000 document templates from over 250 countries and jurisdictions in its identity… | | ROC highlights accuracy gains of latest fingerprint algorithm in NIST test | | ROC has revealed a 35 percent improvement in the accuracy of its fingerprint biometric algorithm,… | | Sumsub recognized for digital inclusion efforts, seeing continued growth | | Sumsub’s recent digital services inclusion campaign has resulted in the company being invited to join… | | | | More News | Guest Posts | Features |
| | | | White Papers, On-Demand | | | | | Face liveness market overview | | Join Biometric Update Managing Editor Chris Burt and Goode Intelligence CEO and Chief Analyst Alan Goode as they discuss their…Read More |
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| | | | | Digital identity: Powering the next wave of government transformation | | As governments worldwide strive to accelerate digital service adoption, digital identity is increasingly becoming central to this transformation. However, this…Read More |
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| | | | | Beyond borders: Biometric-driven efficiency in travel | | The global travel industry is experiencing a significant resurgence, and we’ve noted significant reinvestment in aircraft, equipment, and facilities. The…Read More |
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| | | | | Watch: Combatting video conferencing deepfake fraud | | As deepfake technology advances and becomes more convincing, enterprises face significant challenges in securing video conferencing platforms and attendees from…Read More |
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| | | | | Protect your business and customers from threat of account fraud | | Customer authentication and onboarding are important business interactions that set the tone for the relationship with the customer. However, these…Read More |
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| | | | | How a global bank mitigates contact center deepfake threats | | Discover how one of the world’s largest financial institutions protects its high-net-worth clients from AI-driven impersonation attempts with Reality Defender.…Read More |
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| | | | | Watch: Protecting contact centers from AI-powered voice fraud | | As deepfake technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, financial institutions enterprises face unprecedented challenges in protecting their contact centers from AI-enabled audio…Read More |
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| | | | | Navigating the UK’s Online Safety Act – choosing the right age verification tech | | With the UK’s Online Safety Act coming into force this July, businesses must implement robust age verification (AV) measures to…Read More |
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| | | | | Decentralized identity for secure user authentication | | This ebook by Youverse explores the potential of decentralized face recognition to make user authentication more private and secure. In…Read More |
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