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Public sector payroll reform for Liberia and Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire voter registration: biometrics in Africa this week
In biometrics and digital identity across Africa this week, civil servant pay is something of a theme as countries successfully employ biometric technology to sack thousands of ghost workers, and coronavirus continues to affect projects such as voter registration in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire as election pressure mounts .... Read the whole story here.

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Daily Biometrics News
Role of biometrics for safe travel reopening examined by IBIA Executive Director
Biometrics will play a critical role in the redesign and future success of the aviation industry, but expanded outreach education...
 
U.S. law enforcement face biometrics market carries on despite splashy announcements
U.S. police will still have choices among biometrics providers when contracting facial recognition services, despite several big names exiting the...
Behavioral biometrics and facial recognition to secure more bank accounts with FICO report showing attitude shift
Far more people in Britain are happy providing biometrics to banks for security purposes (71 percent) than are content with...
 
UN sets signposts at good digital ID and ethical use of facial recognition on digital roadmap
Universal digital identity must be “good” and legislation and safeguards must govern facial biometrics to benefit from the technologies without...
The future of voice
This is a guest post by Michal Hrabi, CEO of Phonexia. No-one could have predicted the extent to which the...
 
Australian rights advocates criticize use of facial biometrics by police, government
Australian Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow is pushing for more rigorous facial recognition regulation to prevent law enforcement from abusing...
Biometrics startup TouchByte secures grant to develop contactless access control prototype
TouchByte has received nearly £50,000 (roughly US$63,000) in government funding from innovation agency Innovate UK to develop a biometric facial...
 
NS8 secures $123M to scale fraud prevention platform with behavior analytics
Fraud detection and prevention company NS8 has secured $123 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and...
BioCatch appoints new CMO from financial sector to lead global brand growth
BioCatch has appointed Mark Elliot as Chief Marketing Officer to lead the global growth of its brand, fresh off a major...
 
Some surprising questions, fewer insights after Deepfake Detection Challenge
Few if any unique or actionable insights have resulted from a lengthy contest created by Facebook to defang deepfake content,...
iOS app blocks facial recognition, biometric authentication coming to Facebook Messenger for Apple
A newly released iOS camera app anonymizes the user in photos and videos by obscuring their faces, and even removing...
 
Public sector payroll reform for Liberia and Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire voter registration: biometrics in Africa this week
In biometrics and digital identity across Africa this week, civil servant pay is something of a theme as countries successfully...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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