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The week in Africa biometrics and digital ID: SDG progress, returning ghost workers and a pensioner deadline
A theme emerging this week is a pan-African perspective for digital ID schemes across the continent. Progress is being made toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal to provide legal identity to all by 2030, while the continent’s budding digital economy could flourish with digital ID in the form of users’ social media presence ... Read the whole story here.

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The week in Africa biometrics and digital ID: SDG progress, returning ghost workers and a pensioner deadline
A theme emerging this week is a pan-African perspective for digital ID schemes across the continent. Progress is being made...
 
Mastercard finds most Latin American and Caribbean consumers want biometric online payments
Millennials in Latin America and the Caribbean are driving regional e-commerce growth rates above 20 percent, and between 63 and...
Genetics specialist calls for crack down on DNA databases and biometric companies enabling repression
A call to crack down on companies selling DNA-profiling technologies to customers performing human rights abuses has been made in...
 
Digital identity not prioritized enough, IDaaS could drive digital transformation, Deloitte says
Businesses are struggling with increasing consumer demands for personalization and security challenges. As they do so in a landscape of...
Android eID API support launched by Qualcomm, 5G smartphone biometrics provided by Goodix
Qualcomm’s new mobile Snapdragon System-on-Chips (SoCs) will be the first to be integrated with Android Identity Credential APIs and included...
 
Apple patent application describes Face ID biometrics with different angles, partial faces, poor lighting
A patent application from Apple for technology that would enable Face ID biometric matching with partial face images and in...
ID document and selfie biometrics solutions proposed for online age checks, compliance and security
Any online age verification procedure to restrict access to online gambling and pornography in Australia would require a biometric component,...
 
FIDO Alliance talks 2019 achievements and biometrics adoption in new report
FIDO Authentication with biometrics or physical tokens for strong, seamless web logins is ready to be deployed on billions of...
SecuGen U20 fingerprint sensor integrated into Laxton biometric tablet
Laxton has integrated the SecuGen U20 fingerprint sensor into its Chameleon multi-modal biometric tablet, providing a rugged, FBI-certified Mobile ID...
 
SenseTime forecasts facial recognition revenue increase despite U.S. ban
Despite being included on the U.S. Government’s Entity List alongside 27 other tech companies, SenseTime is rumored to register some...
Verint announces company split and $400M minority investment deal
Verint is planning to split into two independent companies, one to focus on customer engagement and one based on its...
 
Deepfakes: Increasing fake news and identity theft in 2020
This is a guest post by Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. Earlier this year, a video was published...
Converging data security and digital ID concerns lead week’s biometrics news
Securing data with biometrics and the security of biometric data itself are the main themes for the week in digital...
 
Surveillance cameras to reach 1 billion by 2021 as face biometrics for police, schools, retail roll out
There will be one billion surveillance cameras in operation around the world by 2021, up nearly 30 percent from 770...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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