Switzerland issues tender for digital ID with $200M budget

Switzerland is forging ahead with its plans to establish a national digital identity with a new tender for an online identity verification provider.

The tender, published last Thursday, calls for software that will verify a person's identity for the state-operated electronic identification credential, known as the e-ID. The product should offer liveness check, biometric face image verification and verification of Swiss ID documents.

The product must also include a software development kit (SDK) for integrating the software into the federal …

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