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Digital ID in Africa this week: mammoth biometric registration plans for Nigeria and Interpol in the Sahel
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s biometrics and digital ID news this week ... Read the whole story here.

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Digital ID in Africa this week: mammoth biometric registration plans for Nigeria and Interpol in the Sahel
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s...
 
Amazon working on facial recognition regulation as groups write Congress to oppose bans
It makes a lot of sense to regulate biometric facial recognition technology, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who revealed...
‘Prone to hacking’: expert witness in Kenya’s Huduma Namba hearings first round
“[The National Integrated Identity Management System] thus is an archaic design compared to modern-day systems architecture and can be rightly...
 
EAB awards three researchers for contributions to fingerprint and facial biometrics
University of Ljubljana researcher Dr. Klemen Grm has won the first EAB Max Snijder Award for his research on processing...
ICAO denies alleged privacy flaw in biometric passports
A group of researchers from the University of Luxemburg may have detected a critical security flaw in the International Civil...
 
Google adds massive image database to fight against deepfakes
Google has partnered with Jigsaw to produce and deliver a massive database of visual deepfakes that is now part of...
Credence ID launches management tool for mobile biometric devices
New web-based management tool for mobile biometric ID deployments CredenceCONNECT has been launched by Credence ID, and the company has...
 
Cognitec reports biometric identification success in NIST facial recognition testing
The latest results from NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:N include successful participation by Cognitec, which according to a...
BioCatch adds policy and case management to behavioral biometrics platform
BioCatch has updated its platform with several new behavioral biometrics products, including a Policy Manager, Case Manager, and new behavioral...
 
Q2 Open integrates Socure digital identity verification to reduce financial fraud
Q2 Holdings has signed a strategic partnership with digital identity verification company Socure to enhance Q2 Open’s CorePro, a Banking-as-a-Service...
Acceptto wins 2019 SINET 16 Innovator Award for behavioral biometric tech
Behavioral biometrics company Acceptto has been included in the SINET 16 Innovators, an industry evaluation of hundreds of innovative cybersecurity...
 
Biometrics among critical data at major risk, say 30 percent of U.S. executives
More than 30 percent of executives in the U.S. fear critical employee and company data, including biometric details, are vulnerable...
  CITRIS Policy Lab publishes digital ID and facial recognition reports to support ID2020 and Good ID
  NIST sees drastic improvement in facial biometrics accuracy as market grows
  Contactless biometric border platform boosts Idemia’s Asia Pacific growth
  India’s public health insurance system implements biometrics to cut fraud
  Evident ID launches data privacy compliance tool for GDPR and CCPA
  Neurotechnology upgrades facial biometrics and other features of time and attendance system
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