Biometrics set to play crucial verification role in digital identity ecosystems

Digital identities, identification and verification systems are at the heart of modern business and civil processes and form the core of global trends of Internet of Things and customer-centric service models. The speed of interactions and the broad use of digital identities, for everything from complex, technical work to everyday shopping, will require biometrics as a key component to support seamless experience and interactions to verify the many different uses of people’s digital identities, says South African identity firm Ideco MD Marius Coetzee.