Guangzhou Metro pilots facial recognition at ticket barriers

“Instead of using tickets or swiping their smartphones, passengers can smile at a screen to unlock the electric gates in about half a second after completing a real-name registration on Guangzhou Metro’s official mini-program on WeChat, China’s popular social media platform, or on the ‘Guangzhou Metro’ mobile app. The fee will be deducted from the […]

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Ankara adds NFC transit ticketing on buses, subways and local trains

Public transportation users in the Turkish capital of Ankara can now upload an AnkaraKart transit pass to their NFC mobile phone and use it to make payments on bus, subway and light rail services. To use the service, passengers download the new Mobil Cep application, developed by public transportation operator Ego, onto their NFC phone

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Catalonia to issue citizens with ‘self sovereign’ digital IDs

Catalonia, the semi-autonomous region of Spain which includes the city of Barcelona, is to develop an electronic identity platform that “turns the citizen into owner, manager and exclusive custodian of his identity and data”. The IdentiCAT platform will be based on the concept of Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) and use distributed ledger technology to allow

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Nissan to build RFID payments into all cars sold in Brazil

All Nissan vehicles manufactured in Brazil are to come factory-installed with Sem Parar RFID tags, enabling them to be used to make in-vehicle payments for electronic tolls, car parking, fuel and retail transactions — including at McDonald’s drive-thrus across the country. Used vehicles sold by Nissan dealerships will also be retrofitted with Sem Parar’s RFID

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PBOC provides details on how China’s new digital currency will work

China’s central bank has released further details of its forthcoming digital currency — including the news that citizens will be able to use it to exchange money and make payments in an NFC-like manner. “The new DC/EP currency is a digital currency and electronic payment tool. Its functional attributes are exactly the same as paper

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