The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is moving forward with a large-scale refugee registration drive in Pakistan. The Documentation Renewal and Information Verification Exercise (DRIVE) is being carried out in collaboration […]

Policy and technology experts have added another wrinkle to the evolving identity crisis in Afghanistan. The story started to take shape a couple of weeks ago, following reports that the […]

The Taliban’s recent offensive in Afghanistan has raised serious concerns about the US government’s careless use of biometric technologies. Security experts sounded the alarm after the Taliban claimed the capital […]

“Aadhaar is the world’s most ambitious civil biometric identity program. Indian citizens are assigned an Aadhaar number connected to biometric registration including fingerprint, iris, and face biometrics…” Government officials from […]

Biometrics News Afghanistan’s first presidential election to use biometric voter verification is now underway, with election officials expressing great confidence in the legitimacy of the process even as voter turnout […]

Afghanistan is poised to proceed with biometric voter verification technologies in this year’s election, but mismanagement and technical issues threaten to mar the process. The plan had been to enhance […]

Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) is moving forward with plans to use biometric devices for the country’s upcoming Presidential election on September 28th. The fingerprint scanners are the same ones […]