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Digital ID in Africa this week: biometric registration of HIV patients in Kenya, new public healthcare scheme in Côte d’Ivoire
Biometrics for healthcare access comes to the fore this week as a new national healthcare scheme in Côte d’Ivoire moves into the mass sign-up stage, while Kenya rolls out a health provision scheme base on iris recognition for people living with HIV. Both projects face challenges to acceptance and privacy ... Read the whole story here.

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Digital ID in Africa this week: biometric registration of HIV patients in Kenya, new public healthcare scheme in Côte d’Ivoire
Biometrics for healthcare access comes to the fore this week as a new national healthcare scheme in Côte d’Ivoire moves...
 
Biometrics checks expand at Southwest U.S. border and Seattle Port as EFF seeks data collection info
Biometric facial recognition has been introduced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the El Paso Port of Entry...
Vsblty to provide biometric technology for ZA smart city projects as shape of future projects considered
Vsblty has announced a pair of security deployments as part of safe community initiatives in South Africa, including biometric facial...
 
Major biometrics IPO delayed as committee requests more info from Megvii
Regulators in Hong Kong have asked Megvii for more information on its planned initial public offering (IPO), in what Reuters...
EFF launches campaign for local bans on government use of facial recognition
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign to empower people in the U.S. working against the use of...
 
Star Trek’s peek at the voice-directed world in our future
This is a guest post by Michael Boukadakis, CEO of ENACOMM. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” as...
NEC and INTERPOL join forces to toughen cybersecurity
NEC has partnered with INTERPOL to update a global cybersecurity agreement signed in 2014 under which NEC’s cybersecurity solutions are...
 
One World Identity releases 2019 identity industry leader landscape
One World Identity (OWI) has released the 2019 Identity Industry Landscape pinpointing more than 400 leading companies in the digital...
Facial biometric payments over 5G showcased at Slush Helsinki 2019
Last week more than 25,000 guests attended Slush Helsinki 2019, including 3,500 startups and 2,000 investors, at the Helsinki Expo...
 
New patent hints at Face ID for future Apple Watch models
Face ID may be coming to Apple Watch, as the company has been granted a patent for a method of...
European interest in facial recognition and other Chinese tech balances U.S. absence at Shenzhen event
A record 44 delegations from countries including Russia, Iran, Hungary, Austria, Sweden were present this year at China’s Hi-Tech Fair...
 
Biometric card progress, facial recognition regulation and revenues top identity news of the week
A step in the commercialization of biometric payment cards is the most-read story on Biometric Update this week, with the...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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