Chris Burt
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2 days ago |
biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt
There are 2.6 billion people around the world who make up the addressable population for user-held digital identity, according to the number-crunchers at KuppingerCole. A blog post from Anne Bailey on the eve of the European Identity and Cloud conference (EIC) 2025 notes that for user-held reusable digital identity to work, it must have critical masses of holders, issuers and verifiers.
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3 days ago |
biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt
Digital service delivery powered by national digital identity programs are sweeping across the Asia-Pacific region, enabling more efficient government operations and easing citizen access. A pair of experts in digital government service delivery from Entrust will join the next Biometric Update webinar to discuss the technological architecture necessary to scale such systems effectively while also maintaining flexibility and interoperability.
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5 days ago |
biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt
Biometrics implementations for public services are expanding in countries around the world, even as AI-enabled fraud and deepfakes threaten online trust. Businesses and governments are grappling with a rash of fraud enabled, supercharged and scaled by AI, from biometric spoof attacks and scaled fake IDs to phishing bots. The treatment for this global pandemic, by consensus amongst the professionals, is more AI, as part or parts in a layered defense.
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5 days ago |
biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt
Refugees in Chad can now apply for a legal identity to bring them an important step closer to social and economic inclusion. Chad’s government, the country’s National Commission for the Reception and Reintegration of Refugees (CNARR) and National Agency for Secure Documents (ANATS), the UNHCR and the World Bank are all partners in the ID document-issuance project.
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6 days ago |
biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt
May 9, 2025 – authID has raised $2.1 million less agent fees and offering expenses with a registered direct offering to continue building its biometric identity verification and authentication business. The agreement is a follow-on to authID’s $8.15 million direct offering announced just weeks ago, with new partner Dominari Holdings’ CEO Kyle Wool leading investors in the latest transaction. The 373,060 shares of authID’s common stock in the offering are priced at $5.60 each.
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