Spanish airport operator Aena has opened a €998,500 procurement to upgrade biometric gates used by its BioPass passenger-processing system. The contract notice divides the work into two lots covering gate […]

Spanish digital identity company Gataca has closed a new funding round to scale its wallet-based identity verification business, with existing investors, including its lead investor Signature Ventures, increasing their stakes, […]

Herta, a Barcelona-based facial recognition and video analytics company, has successfully completed Spain’s artificial intelligence regulatory sandbox, the first such program in the European Union, putting its BioSurveillance system through […]

Spain’s annual Operation Crossing the Strait has begun, and for the first time it is running with biometric border controls for non-EU travelers as the summer transit between Europe and […]

Spain’s digital national identity document is now a legally valid substitute for the physical card in face-to-face identification, marking a milestone in the country’s digital ID rollout. Starting April 2, […]

Spain’s MiDNI rollout reaches its next operational milestone on April 2, when citizens will be able to carry and present the national identity document through the official app. The National […]

Spain’s data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, has fined Fútbol Club Barcelona €500,000 after finding the club processed biometric data from more than 100,000 members without […]

Spain’s Sociedad Espanola para la Transformacion Tecnologica has committed 500,000 euros to Sybolid Identity, giving public backing to a company focused on secure business digital identity, digital information verification and […]

Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD, has fined UK-based digital identity company Yoti 950,000 euros for violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation related to its digital ID app. […]

Mitek Systems has announced significant enhancements to its SEPBLAC-compliant digital onboarding capabilities for the Spanish market, adding advanced defenses against injection attacks where fraudsters insert pre-recorded deepfakes directly into biometric […]