Australia’s myGov mobile app has launched to give residents control over their digital identity and access to both public and private-sector services.
The app provides log-in with face biometrics, includes a digital wallet, and gives users access to 15 government services to start, with more coming soon.
The EU Council has agreed on a draft version of the AI Act, with a ban on social scoring, fundamental rights considerations for classifying applications as high-risk, and more detailed definitions of “public spaces” and “remote biometric identification systems.”
Several civil society groups and some EU legislators immediately weighed in with criticisms.
The Council has also reached a common position on the legal framework for a continental digital ID.
Proposed amendments to eIDAS would set technical standards for EU ID digital wallets, address attribute attestation, define its relations with other laws, and could give countries until 2025 or later to have the whole system up and running.
At almost the exact same time it was announced a contract to build the European Digital Identity Wallet that will deliver that ID has been awarded to Scytáles, along with partner Netcompany-Intrasoft.
An agreement between the UK and Ukraine will see the countries collaborate on digital identity, emerging technologies and cybersecurity. Ukraine gets financial services access, and a path to global portability of digital identity through mutual recognition agreements becomes a little clearer.
U.S. CBP has introduced biometric traveler verification for people debarking on cruise ships from San Diego, as border biometrics checks continue to expand.
Already, 240 million people have used CBP biometrics at sea, land and air borders, and another 16 airports in the country are expected to test biometric systems next year. Meanwhile India’s Digi Yatra system has expanded to biometric checks for domestic flights.
Thales Head of Business Development and Strategic Marketing Neville Pattinson explains in a sponsored post how digital travel credentials held on mobile phones are now combining with face biometrics to deliver the long-promised ‘paperless’ airport journey. A single app serves multiple airport processes for major time savings, and will be further extended going forward.
Source: Biometric Update
