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PTA starts mandatory facial recognition of subscribers to tackle 'illegal' SIMs issue

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has begun requiring people registering SIM cards to get their faces identified in order to curb illegal SIM cards in the country. According to a report by 24 Digital, PTA disclosed that over 360, 000 nationa...

Beijing plans to regulate 'digital humans'

Finland among first adopters of the digital passport in the EU

Finland has launched a pilot project to test digital passports and Digital Travel Credentials (DTC) for Finnish citizens traveling from Helsinki to the UK. This trial allows passengers to present a digital ID on their smartphones instead of physical ...

Costa Rica to adopt biometric passport in 2022

Costa Rica's General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners is in the process of implementing a new biometric passport. The passport will have a chip incorporating biometric data such as face and fingerprint together with personal information. In ad...

DRC to roll out a national population register

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s President Felix Tshisekedi announced a digitalisation plan that includes the development of a population register for the country. The DRC currently does not maintain national identity documents but adults are pro...

NCC opens public comment period for SIM card registration and replacement guidelines

TheNigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given timelines for public input on draft guidelines  on SIM registration and replacement. The guidelines make it mandatory to use the national ID when registering or replacing a SIM card.  Th...

Singapore rolling out a national digital identification programme

Singapore is implementing a crypto based mobile based national digital ID. In an interview, Mr Kwok Quek Sin, senior director -national digital identity at GovTech Singapore explained that digital ID was one of Singapore's six Smart Nation strategic ...

Sierra Leone develops blockchain based national digital ID

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has announced that his government is developing a blockchain-based digital ID system. Bio explained that the project was already in the first phase where all identity records are being digitised. In the subse...

International Telecommunication Union focus group issued a technical report on application of distributed ledger technology

ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector focus group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) issued a technical report on DLT use cases. The report is focused on competitive advantage of the DLT, and identifies domains of possible u...

European Parliament publishes study on biometric profiling

The European Parliament has published a study titled 'Biometric Recognition and Behavioural Detection ' which assesses the ethics of biometric recognition and behavioural detection techniques particularly their use in public spaces. The study defines...

UK releases responses to consultation on digital identity

The UK government has shared responses received following a call for evidence on digital ID. The government says that after the call in July 2019, over 100 organisations responded, giving perspectives on questions such as who should take a lead role ...

US government seeks partnership to develop secure and standardised digital ID

The US government is inviting companies with expertise in digital identities on mobile devices to express their interest in working on related reference architectures. The aim is to develop secure and standardized digital ID architectures that are pr...