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Digital ID in Africa this week: local mobile banking and biometric verification technology soar ahead
The trend for this week is mobile – mobile banking, payments, SIM registration and even a mobile app to check someone’s ID from a photo of their thumbprints. It’s also African providers and developers which have been making the progress. ... Read the whole story here.

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Digital ID in Africa this week: local mobile banking and biometric verification technology soar ahead
The trend for this week is mobile – mobile banking, payments, SIM registration and even a mobile app to check...
 
Principles for self-sovereign biometrics planned at Internet Identity Workshop
A group of decentralized identity and biometrics stakeholders at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) XXIX have agreed on the framework...
Osram Opto talks security of sensitive data with infrared LEDs and facial biometrics
Osram Opto Semiconductors is the world’s second largest manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductors and the global market leader in the infrared...
 
Idemia partners with Idex to adopt its on-card biometric enrollment intellectual property
Idex Biometrics has signed a patent license agreement with Idemia for the global use of Idex’s on-card remote fingerprint enrollment...
NEC tops several NIST Facial Recognition Vendor Test categories as accuracy at scale improves
Biometric algorithms from NEC have ranked first or second in several accuracy categories in the latest version of NIST’s Facial...
 
France to use face biometrics for enrollment into national digital ID program
The French Interior Ministry will deploy facial recognition for enrollment into its national digital identification program dubbed Alicem, making France...
Next Biometrics introduces new products for the access control market
Next Biometrics is launching two new products for the access control market. According to the company One Touch Access 110...
 
BehavioSec wins awards for its behavioral biometrics platform
BehavioSec has been recognized for its behavioral biometrics platform earning Gold status at this year’s Golden Bridge Awards and also...
Chooch AI releases computer vision service for AI applications
Visual AI platform Chooch AI has released a hardware-agnostic edge computer vision service called Chooch Edge AI that uses Artificial...
 
Video KYC stalled in India as regulators fail to release guidelines
FinTech startups in India have finalized video-KYC (know your customer) solutions for customer identity verification to prevent money laundering, financing...
NEC partners with BlackRidge to carry advanced cybersecurity technology
NEC Asia Pacific has signed a reseller partnership with BlackRidge Technology to integrate its robust identity-based cybersecurity technology for private...
 
StereoVision Imaging receives eight continuation patents for FMCW LiDAR technology
Human identification technology developer StereoVision Imaging (SVI) is internationally scaling its patent portfolio regarding the use of Frequency Modulated Continuous...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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