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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 other digital identity programs have done for individuals, establishing a single organizational profile that businesses could use to streamline their interactions with the government. According […]
Africa’s most prominent identity-focused NGO is planning to explore different approaches to digital identity numbers in an upcoming panel discussion. The webinar, titled “Spotlight on Unique Digital Identity Numbers”, will feature numerous panelists, including Morocco CNDP President Omar Seghrouchni, National Identity Management Commission GM Hadiza Ali Dagabana, Mauritius Data Protection Commissioner Drudeisha Madhub, Gabon Biometric […]
ID4Africa is calling attention to a recent Identification for Development (ID4D) report that examines the relative quality of the privacy features in digital ID programs in Austria, India, and Estonia. The report specifically stresses the importance of privacy by design, noting that privacy should be built into an ID program at the earliest stages of […]
Israel-based digital ID card maker Pangea has announced that it has developed a new biometric smart card that can be used as an ‘immunity passport’ by governments to identify individuals who are safe to travel, thus helping to open borders to tourism once again in the wake of COVID-19. Though the details behind the immunity […]
Yoti is hoping to educate New Zealand’s youth about the benefits of digital identity through a new partnership with MyMahi. The online portal is designed to help young people in New Zealand make the transition from school to the working world. To that end, MyMahi provides users with timetables, notifications, and other tools to help […]
Yoti will be outfitting Volunteer Edinburgh with digital IDs that will make it easier to onboard and issue credentials to new members. The organization currently has a network of more than 1,400 volunteers through the Scotland Cares program, and those numbers have gone up in the past few months as people have signed up to […]
Onfido has successfully completed its FCA regulatory sandbox pilot in the UK. The pilot began in February of 2019, and was carried out in collaboration with Evernym and Deloitte. The project was specifically set up to test the viability of reusable digital identities in commercial situations. Onfido is now reporting that the results were extremely […]
Mastercard has joined the ID2020 Alliance, the financial services giant has announced. The latter group is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting user-managed digital identity solutions. The organization has worked with global companies including Accenture and Microsoft in support of United Nations efforts to establish recognized identity as a basic right, and has actively explored […]
“…SITA framed it as an important step forward with respect to Smart Path, its project aimed at establishing a universal, biometric identity token recognized by airports, airlines, and governments around the world.” SITA has become a Premium Donor of the Sovrin Foundation, announcing the move as an affirmation of its commitment to develop a new […]
Atlanta-based artificial intelligence-powered identity services company Trust Stamp has announced it raised $1 million in Series A funding within 36 hours via investment platform SeedInvest, toward its goal of $5.6 million. Trust Stamp uses AI and advanced cryptographic techniques to anonymize an individual’s biometric data, turning it into what is known as Transformed Identity Tokens […]
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