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Digital ID in Africa this week: biometric verification for Somali military pay, SIM registration in Tanzania
African biometric and digital ID issues continue apace both on and off the continent. In Somalia a scheme to use biometric checks for direct bank payments to military personnel is now being extended to allied militia while Ghana has been praised by the ECOWAS community for the large-scale issuance of ECOWAS-standard ID cards ... Read the whole story here.

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SITA says aviation industry on board with biometrics for single travel token
The air travel industry is working together toward a common goal of enabling all commercial air travel processes with a...
 
Police app, robot cops and schools get facial biometrics, while NYC considers surveillance transparency
South Wales Police are planning to trial a smartphone app with biometric facial recognition from NEC with 50 officers to...
Bio-key, Fingerprint Cards and Idex Biometrics reporting Q2 results August 15
Bio-Key International, Fingerprint Cards and Idex Biometrics each announced today that they will be reporting Q2 2019 financial results on...
 
Facebook biometric privacy lawsuit to proceed as class action after denied appeal
Facebook has been denied a motion to prevent a suit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act from proceeding as...
NEXT Biometrics Aadhaar-certified technology integrated in Sunmi POS terminals for India
Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co. is integrating Next Biometrics` STQC and UIDAI-certified fingerprint sensor modules into its P1 POS terminals for...
 
UK Post Office offers digital identity services on government marketplace
The UK Post Office has joined the Government Digital Framework’s GCloud11 marketplace to offer a suite of online and in-person...
Microsoft contractor reveals Skype human annotation of user conversations
Microsoft contractors working on Skype’s translation function have been discovered to be listening to recordings of user conversations, in the...
 
Idex, Feitian partner on supply chain solution for biometric card manufacturers
Idex Biometrics has signed an agreement with Feitian Technologies to supply smart card manufacturers with a complete pre-lam inlay solution...
U.S. Real ID driver’s license implementations face problems ahead of October 2020 launch
The implementation of the U.S. government’s Real ID system, which is supposed to grant holders of the secure driver’s licenses...
 
Third-party audit shows no discrepancies in biometric remote voting with Voatz app
A third-party audit of voting using the biometric Voatz app for elections in Denver has been completed by the National...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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