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How many billions are the last billion’s biometrics worth?
Developing world identity systems lag far behind those in the world’s richest countries, and biometric systems to address the gap face a variety of technical and implementation challenges. The human cost of not meeting those challenges is real, but the business case is still being worked out, and industry engagement has not matched the scale of the problem. Anil Jain and representatives of Simprints and Ion Biometrics say strong ID can be extended to everyone, and discuss how it will be done ... Read the whole story here.

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