Singapore citizens will soon be able to use their faces to gain access to various government services. The country will specifically allow people to use facial recognition to log into […]

The Executive Director of Liberia’s National Identification Registry (NIR) has made an appeal for more funding from the government in order to expand the agency’s biometric registration capabilities and reach […]

NEXT Biometrics technology will be used in a citizen ID program in Russia, thanks to a new partnership. The company has announced that a Russian firm called LLC NF Technology […]

Subhashish Panigrahi has published a field diary that details the impact of COVID-19 on India’s Aadhaar program. Panigrahi is one of Yoti’s three Digital Identity Fellows, and is currently examining […]

India’s Election Commission is pitching new legislation that would link a citizen’s voter ID card with their Aadhaar number. The legislation would amend the 1951 Representation of the People Act, […]

A new nation-wide biometric identification program in Kenya was suspended by the country’s high court until new laws are enacted that protect the data collected and prevent discrimination against minorities. […]

The IT Consultant for Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) says that four companies have been shortlisted for the contract to supply the EC with the Biometric Verification System for the country’s […]

“Aadhaar is the world’s most ambitious civil biometric identity program. Indian citizens are assigned an Aadhaar number connected to biometric registration including fingerprint, iris, and face biometrics…” Government officials from […]

Department officials from Kochi in the Ernakulam district of India have reported that the coverage of migrant workers in the area with biometric identification cards has reached 80%. A department […]

“…IDEMIA suggested that the biometric national ID cards ‘will accelerate rollout of Morocco’s online services and will ramp up development of the digital economy.’” IDEMIA has won a contract to […]