The United Kingdom’s Home Office plans to use biometric smartwatches to track migrants who have been convicted of criminal offences. The wearables devices will be equipped with facial recognition technology, and criminal […]

“The system will be based on facial recognition, and is aimed at enabling contactless border screening.” The United Kingdom is getting ready to implement a stringent biometric border control regime […]

A multi-partisan group of British lawmakers is pushing the government to blacklist camera equipment from Hikvision and Dahua. The group is made up of 67 MPs and Lords from across […]

Yoti is calling attention to a couple of the key changes in the United Kingdom’s Good Practice Guide (GPG) for identity verification. The company previously discussed GPG 45 back in […]

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its final report for the Regulatory Sandbox project with Onfido. The digital identity specialist entered the Sandbox in the summer of 2019 […]

Yoti will be working with the Kingston Unity to help British teenagers gain access to their Child Trust Funds (CTF). The CTFs are tax-free savings accounts that were set up […]

The UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has completed the first phase of a new Digital Business Identity initiative. The program would essentially do for businesses what […]

As governments around the world consider easing lockdown restrictions, digital identity verification company Onfido is in talks with the U.K. government regarding its plans to issue COVID-19 immunity passports as […]

The Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC) has joined forces with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to release updated privacy guidelines for the use of surveillance cameras in the United Kingdom. The […]