South Korean Army Plans Biometric Gun Cabinets and Digital Weapon Locks
South Korea’s Army plans to introduce biometric smart gun cabinets and NFC-based digital locks, replacing physical keys and handwritten records in a long-term…
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Ethiopia Moves Fayda Digital ID Into State-Owned Faydaverse Enterprise
Ethiopia is transitioning its Fayda national digital ID program into a state-owned enterprise called Faydaverse, pairing the organizational change with plans…
Nigeria Immigration Service Begins Biometric Airport Overhaul
The Nigeria Immigration Service has begun a nationwide overhaul of airport operations, training frontline personnel to use biometric surveillance, automated…
San Francisco Bars Pause PatronScan Facial Recognition After Boycott Campaign
Two San Francisco bars have paused their use of PatronScan following a boycott campaign focused on the identity system’s facial recognition and patron-data…
iDenfy Adds Norway’s BankID to Identity Verification Platform
iDenfy has integrated Norway’s BankID into its identity verification platform, allowing customers to offer the country’s established electronic identity as an…
DHS Privacy Assessment Details Secret Service HELIX Surveillance Platform
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published a privacy assessment of the Secret Service’s HELIX platform, detailing how it combines surveillance…
Telos ID Expansion Drives 33 Percent Quarterly Revenue Growth
Telos Corporation reported second-quarter revenue of $47.7 million, up 33 percent from a year earlier, with growth in its identity business providing the main…
AI Update: The Agents Got Wallets
Cloudflare gives AI agents wallets and IDs, Rubrik authorizes them per tool call, Visa buys BioCatch for $2.4 billion, and Fraunhofer builds a live deepfake…
CLEAR Wins Approval for Biometric Lanes at Tampa Airport
Tampa International Airport is preparing to add CLEAR+ lanes and facial-recognition eGates at each of its four airside security checkpoints after the airport’s…
Daon Maps Five Patents Into Quantum Identity Architecture
Daon has introduced a five-patent Quantum Identity architecture intended to help future identity systems assess whether biometric and authentication evidence…