NSW to Require Facial Recognition at Every Gaming Room Entrance
New South Wales will make facial recognition mandatory at the entrance of gaming rooms across the state, tying the technology to a new register that lets a…
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Singapore to Require Robust Age Checks on Social Media Platforms
Singapore will require social media platforms to run robust and reliable age checks rather than accept a user’s word, and has told them that platforms whose…
Japan Merges Its Identity Portal and Authentication Apps Into One
Japan’s Digital Agency has launched the Myna App, absorbing the separate Digital Authentication App into the existing Mynaportal App so that identity checks…
GSA Details Post-Quantum Work on Federal ID and Building Access
The US General Services Administration has set out how it is preparing federal identity systems for cryptography that a quantum computer could not break,…
Kazakhstan to Add 198 Biometric Border Terminals by 2028
Kazakhstan will install 198 more Q-Gate biometric terminals at its border crossing points by 2028, close to five times the number in service today. Fifty-four…
Cyprus to Replace Airport Passport Scanners With Automated Biometric Gates
Cyprus will scrap the electronic passport control scanners at Larnaca and Paphos airports and install fully automated border control gates in their place, with…
Egypt Sets Rules for Digital Financial Identity Platform
The Central Bank of Egypt has approved the regulations governing its Digital Financial Identity platform, the system through which banks will identify…
IDnow Certified to Issue Qualified Attribute Attestations Under eIDAS 2.0
IDnow has been certified to issue Qualified Electronic Attestations of Attributes, letting it supply legally recognised credentials attesting to specific facts…
Malaysia Rules Out Buying MyKad and Passport Supplier Datasonic
Malaysia will not buy Datasonic Technologies, the company that supplies the MyKad national identity card and the country’s passports, the National Security…
Wrongly Arrested Casino Guest Seeks Names of 168 Others Flagged by Facial Recognition
A Nevada truck driver arrested after a casino facial recognition system misidentified him has asked a federal judge to order the City of Reno to hand over…