| View in Browser | Subscribe Today | | | | | | Daily Biometrics News : May 30, 2025 | | | | Spain’s digital wallet to be included in EU age assurance app pilot project | | In tandem with enforcement action on age assurance, the European Commission is ramping up activity on the EU age verification…Read More | | | | Nigeria kickstarts presidential committee to boost DPI implementation | | Nigeria is moving forward in its plans to transform the country through digital public infrastructure… | | Meta cleared to fight ‘celeb-bait’ ads with facial recognition in South Korea | | Meta has received a green light from South Korean regulators to introduce a facial recognition… | | Hand biometrics experts discuss synthetic data, image quality standards | | Hand biometrics are like your favorite character actor: omnipresent, underappreciated, and typically outshined by the… | | Creds, PlaySafe ID target growing business for digital ID in videogames | | Whether it’s making sure a player is actually human or making sure the right person… | | Finding the use case that makes everyone want a digital wallet: Samsung Wallet | | Rob White, head of identity services at Samsung Wallet, addressed the company’s ongoing quest to… | | Australia, NZ airports boost international passenger processing capacity | | Australian airports continue to add more SmartGates powered by Idemia’s biometric border technology for international… | | Accelerating ID fraud linked to worsening economic conditions in new report | | For digital ID providers, yearly increases in fraud are becoming as reliable as death and… | | Ondato services now certified under eIDAS | | Digital identity and age verification company Ondato has announced that its qualified trusted services are… | | Meta, Anduril bid for Pentagon contract with immersive combat wearables | | Anduril Industries and Meta Platforms have recently partnered to develop advanced extended reality (XR) wearables… | | Infant.ID system can effectively address child swaps, trafficking: Integrated Biometrics | | Integrated Biometrics (IB) is a regular exhibitor at ID4Africa AGMs, but this year, the U.S.… | | Agentic AI needs to be bound to human identity; Anonybit offers a solution | | “The only way to prove human identity in the digital world is with biometrics:” so… | | Jumio, FaceTec liveness IP legal tussle accelerates with new motion | | There is new sauce on the ongoing legal beef between Jumio and FaceTec over a… | | Tanzania budgets $4.5M for digital ID pilot targeting minors | | Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister, Innocent Bashungwa, has announced that the government has allocated the sum… | | Forex.com to use Liquid’s eKYC for customer identity verification | | Japan’s Liquid is supplying biometric identity verification technology to be used by Forex.com. Liquid eKYC… | | Privately facial age estimation does 300,000 age checks a month | | Privately SA is now processing nearly 300,000 age checks monthly through its AgeAI and FaceAssure… | | Zero knowledge proofs reveal their utility for age verification and beyond: Aztec | | A research report from Aztec examines the potential in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) for privacy preserving… | | UK police ask for more funds as it expands facial recognition use | | UK’s police chiefs have asked the government to commit £220 million (US$296 million) annually for… | | Age assurance laws in EU, UK starting to sting as governments ramp up digital ID | | Word is beginning to get around: the regulators are coming. As regulatory bodies in the… | | Ada Lovelace Institute questions legality of facial recognition in UK | | Deployments of biometric technologies, such as facial recognition and emotion recognition, may not be lawful… |
| | | | ID4Africa 2025 | | | | ‘Digital identity is critical national infrastructure’: ID4Africa 2025 | | World Bank and European Commission Technical Consultant Adam Cooper examined the global landscape of digital identity adoption, noting that he…Read More | | | | Inclusive digital ID poised for leap forward with QR codes, similar credentials | | QR codes have been around for decades, but they and other similar technologies have only… | | Procurement integral part of digital ID system design from beginning: UNDP | | Experts from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have advised governments implementing digital ID systems… | | Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya reveal revenue generation models from national ID programs | | At ID4Africa 2025, a panel of representatives from five African countries deemed advanced in identity… | | Ethiopia unveils FaydaPass digital wallet to boost financial inclusion | | Ethiopia has launched what it calls the FaydaPass wallet, the latest move in its digital… | | Need for speed in removing barriers to birth registration, ID integration in Africa | | Speakers on two panels dedicated to birth registration early on Day 3 of the ongoing… | | Strategies to get the most out of digital identity in focus at ID4Africa 2025 | | Making digital identity useful is one of the key themes of ID4Africa’s 2025 AGM in… | | African nations making digital ID gains in the face of common challenges | | Several countries in Africa are on the right track with their national digital ID projects,… | | Ethiopia reveals strategy behind digital ID progress as ID4Africa 2025 opens | | Ethiopia’s Fayda digital ID program successes were in the spotlight on the first day of… | | Leveraging digital ID in the financial sector: ID4Africa panel | | Financial inclusion was highlighted as the mother of all digital ID use cases during an… | | ID4Africa 2026 AGM will take place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire | | Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, will be the venue of the 2026 edition of ID4Africa’s… | | ID4Africa 2025 begins with record numbers, urgency and Ethiopian PM’s address | | ID4Africa’s 2025 AGM kicked off today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attended by Prime Minister Dr.… | | World Bank demystifies PKI and electronic signatures at ID4Africa 2025 | | A workshop chaired by World Bank officials Nay Constantine, Tunde Fafunwa and Chris Tullis addressed… | | Record ID4Africa exhibitors show growth in continent’s digital identity market | | Among the new all-time highs in scale set at ID4Africa’s 2025 AGM in Addis Ababa,… | | African Digital Identity Hackathon winners present diverse ideas: ID4Africa 2025 | | The winners of the African Digital Identity Hackathon, organized by Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Upanzi… | | | | More News | Guest Posts | Features |
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