New Lawsuits, Hearings and Bills Show Social Media Age Limits Are Far From Settled
Four developments this week show that laws keeping children off social media are still being fought over, and that the fight often turns on how platforms are…
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Kenya Connects 20 More Police Clearance Centres to Biometric System
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations has connected 20 additional police clearance application centres to its Multi-Biometric Identification System,…
Kenya Launches Multi-Biometric System for Police Clearances
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations has launched a multi-biometric identification system that combines fingerprint and facial recognition for…
Kenya Plans to Link CCTV Cameras With National ID Records for Facial Recognition
Kenya’s Interior Ministry plans to connect surveillance cameras with the country’s national identity records so that police can match faces captured on camera…
JKIA to Add Self-Service Check-In and Biometric Entry Systems in Terminal Upgrade
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi is introducing common-use self-service check-in kiosks and biometric entry systems as part of a broader…
Identy.io Announces Africa Expansion with Kenya and Nigeria Focus
Identy.io has announced expansion plans targeting Kenya and Nigeria with a software-first, smartphone-oriented biometric strategy designed to reduce reliance…
World Iris Biometrics Launches in Italy as Kenya Confirms Regulatory Compliance
World, the identity project formerly known as Worldcoin, has launched iris scanning enrollment in Italy, deploying its Orb devices in Rome to register users…
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…
Extreme Heat Slows Fingerprint Voter Verification in Kenya By-Election
High temperatures in northern Kenya reportedly interfered with fingerprint-based voter verification during a recent by-election, highlighting the environmental…
Kenya’s IEBC Adds Iris Scans to Voter Registration Ahead of 2027 Elections
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has launched a new nationwide voter registration campaign that, for the first time, incorporates…