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Identity Fraud in Life and Funeral Insurance: What South Africa's Numbers Show
Oct 23, 2026 · 6 min read

Identity Fraud in Life and Funeral Insurance: What South Africa's Numbers Show

16,520 fraud cases in a year: where identity breaks in life and funeral insurance, and where an insurer's own biometric helps.

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Oct 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Biometric Verification Against Identity Fraud: A Guide for Lenders

Face and iris checks that stop repeat borrowers under new names.

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Patient Identification in Hospitals: Duplicate Records, Impersonation and What Biometrics Changes
Oct 8, 2026 · 6 min read

Patient Identification in Hospitals: Duplicate Records, Impersonation and What Biometrics Changes

The wrong record, a duplicate record or a mixed one: why name search fails at the registration desk and what changes when the patient is the identifier.

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Oct 4, 2026 · 4 min read

What Is Iris Scanning? Answers for People Who Have to Deploy It

Safety, hardware, who it works for and what gets stored.

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Biometric Verification in Health Insurance: Lessons from Ghana and Kenya
Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read

Biometric Verification in Health Insurance: Lessons from Ghana and Kenya

Card sharing, ghost patients and phantom visits: what biometric verification changed in Ghana and Kenya, and what it does not solve.

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Sep 8, 2026 · 5 min read

How Iris Recognition Works

Capture, segmentation, unwrapping, encoding and comparison, step by step.

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Biometric credit bureau flow
Sep 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Biometric Credit Bureau: Credit History for People Without Documents

How lenders verify borrowers and their repayment history when documents are not enough, with evidence from Malawi and Nigeria.

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Aug 26, 2026 · 5 min read

Iris Authentication: How Accurate It Is and How to Tune It

Why iris has so few false matches and how to set the threshold for 1:1 and 1:N.

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One Person, One Identity: Biometrics in Elections and at the Border
Aug 23, 2026 · 5 min read

One Person, One Identity: Biometrics in Elections and at the Border

2.78 million invalid voter registrations, 73,180 caught at the border: what Nigeria, the UAE and the EU show about public biometric registers.

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Abstract iris artwork
Aug 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Iris Identification at National Scale

Why national ID and social registries add iris, where the real cost of a biometric system hides, and how open standards keep a country in control of its own data.

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Migrating a Biometric Database Without Losing Identities or Getting Locked In
Aug 6, 2026 · 5 min read

Migrating a Biometric Database Without Losing Identities or Getting Locked In

Proprietary templates, format variants and a 2030 deadline: how to change a biometric vendor without re-enrolling millions of people.

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Aug 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Biometric Authentication: Modalities, Templates and Lock-in

Face, fingerprint and iris, what a template is, and why its format matters.

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INGRESS architecture
Jul 31, 2026 · 6 min read

Web 3.0 Identity for the Unbanked: Biometric DIDs and Verifiable Credit Histories

Biometric DIDs that survive a lost phone, and credit histories that lenders can verify on a blockchain without seeing private data.

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WFP biometric registration of a mother and child
May 30, 2021 · 5 min read

Biometrics in the Humanitarian Sector

Benefits, risks and data protection rules for biometric registration of refugees and aid recipients.

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