| Daily Biometrics News : Jan 30, 2025 |
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| GenAI fueling employee impersonation with biometric spoofs and counterfeit ID fraud |
| A new report on the state of identity fraud has revealed the startling statistic that half of businesses in North…Read More |
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| Nepal integrates national ID with digital govt app to expand public service access |
| The Nepalese government recently integrated the national ID system with a digital government application dubbed… |
| Veridos celebrates 40M digital ID issuance milestone in Iraq |
| German secure identity solutions provider Veridos says its longstanding partnership with the Iraqi government to… |
| Idaho may be next with mDLs |
| A bill has been introduced in Idaho’s state legislature by its House Transportation and Defense… |
| ID.me secures $275M credit facility to scale digital wallet |
| ID.me has closed a $275 million credit facility from funds operated by Ares Management, which… |
| Smartphone biometrics are Next focus market in strategic pivot |
| Next Biometrics is moving into the smartphone market with technology to enable fingerprint authentication anywhere… |
| Advocacy group calls on Trump administration to speed up digital identities |
| The Better Identity Coalition (BIC) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency… |
| BixeLab first officially accredited for MOSIP MACP biometric device testing |
| BixeLab has been officially accredited by MOSIP, the Modular Open Source Identity Platform, as the… |
| AuthID’s PrivacyKey addresses privacy, compliance concerns over biometrics |
| An announcement from AuthID says the identity verification and authentication provider has launched PrivacyKey, a… |
| Rheinmetall Dermalog SensorTec provides facial recognition for gun safe |
| Biometrics for digital identity come with risks, but they are unlikely to get you shot.… |
| Entrust sharpens cryptographic data security focus with public certificate divestment |
| Entrust has sold its public certificate business as it looks to develop certain core areas… |
| Georgia rolls out Thales biometric enrollment kiosks for driver’s license services |
| Georgia’s Department of Driver Services (DDS) is rolling out self-service biometric enrollment kiosks from Thales… |
| Biometric voter verification not possible in short term: Guyana Elections Commission |
| The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has again spoken about the lingering question of deploying a… |
| Northern Block and Sphereon merge to deliver digital credentials ‘across jurisdictions’ |
| Northern Block, a digital trust infrastructure company, and Sphereon, a pioneer in verifiable credential technologies,… |
| Anonyome Labs releases new version of its DID wallet SDK |
| Identity and privacy software maker Anonyome Labs has released a new version of its mobile… |
| New plan, but same name for UK’s ‘digital centre of government’ |
| The UK’s “digital centre of government” will be known as the Government Digital Service (GDS),… |
| Deadline extended for Benin digital government transformation tender |
| A tender to support digital government transformation in Benin has been extended by two weeks.… |
| Belgian digital identity app Itsme becomes free for Flemish public sector |
| Belgian digital identity app Itsme will be free for Flemish municipalities, government services and schools… |
| Synthetic identities drive need for enhanced fraud prevention in Africa |
| A comprehensive new report from identity verification vendor Smile ID digs into critical digital identity… |
| BioCatch puts spotlight on money mule problem, biometric solution |
| Money mules move money, knowingly or not, for criminal enterprise. They can be students, or… |
