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South Korea Formalizes Optional Facial Recognition for Mobile Phone Sign-Ups

South Korea is moving ahead with a plan to let mobile carriers verify new subscribers with facial recognition, part of a wider government effort to stamp out…

June 30, 2026

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South Korea’s Telecom Face-Verification Mandate Will Initially Exempt Foreign Residents

South Korea will require facial recognition for all new mobile phone subscriptions from July, matching each applicant’s face against their official…

June 23, 2026

South Korea Looks to Mobile Facial Verification to Fight SIM-Swap and Voice-Phishing Abuse

South Korea is moving to add facial verification to mobile phone activation and opening procedures as part of a broader effort to curb SIM-swap abuse and…

December 22, 2025

Illuma Labs Secures $9M in Series A Funding to Enhance Voice Authentication and Combat Emerging Fraud Threats

BioCatch Explains How Behavioral Biometrics Can Stop Vishing Fraud

These days, voice phishing – or vishing – is an increasingly lucrative scam. It’s also becoming more difficult to identify. Successful scammers are able to…

February 4, 2019

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The Biometric Digital Identity Prism is a market landscape framework designed to help influencers and decision makers understand, innovate, and implement digital identity technologies and solutions. This innovative framework for understanding and evaluating the rapidly evolving biometric digital identity marketplace is the only market model that is truly biometric-centric based on the foundational conviction that in the age of digital transformation the only true, reliable link between humans and their digital data is biometrics. www.the-prism-project.com