Kenya Ports Authority Tenders Biometric Platform for Employee Medical Scheme
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has issued a five-year tender for a nationwide biometric platform to manage medical benefits for its employees and their…
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FaceTec Completes Full Suite of Level 1-5 Liveness and Injection Attack Testing
FaceTec has successfully cleared the full spectrum of independent presentation attack detection (PAD) and injection attack detection (IAD) evaluations,…
Honduras Launches “Bien” Super-App on TECH5 Biometric Infrastructure
The Republic of Honduras has officially launched a new national Digital ID program, marking one of Latin America’s most significant deployments of Digital…
Nigeria Formally Rolls Out ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card
Nigeria has officially launched the ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card, completing a long-running regional project to replace legacy travel documents with…
Nigeria Plans Single-Entry Emergency Biometric Passport for Citizens Abroad
The Nigeria Immigration Service is preparing to introduce a Single Travel Emergency Passport (STEP), a new temporary document intended to replace the existing…
Namirial Secures Early ETSI TS 119 461 Certification Under eIDAS 2
Namirial has announced that its Namirial Onboarding suite is among the first solutions in Europe to be certified under the new remote identity proofing…
Malaysia Pushes MyDigital ID via Telco Integration to Combat Scam Calls
Malaysia’s government is moving to tie its MyDigital ID platform more closely to mobile networks, aiming to use the national digital identity system as a tool…
Russia Begins Large-Scale Border Biometric Collection for Foreigners
Russia has started a new phase of biometric data collection for foreign citizens and stateless persons crossing its borders, expanding an earlier trial into a…
Coupang Pivots to Passkeys in Taiwan as 33.7M Accounts Exposed in Korea
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is deploying passwordless authentication in Taiwan just as it manages a massive data breach in its home market. The…
Vietnam Tightens ID Rules for Banking, Pushing Customers Toward Chip IDs and eID
Vietnam’s central bank is moving to standardize identity verification across the financial system, ending the long-standing practice of using passports as a…