3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (912+ words) By the end of 2026, EU Member States are expected to make European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallets available to citizens. What follows is potentially even more consequential. Very large online platforms will be required to accept an EUDI Wallet when users…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1265+ words) According to a new RAND Europe report, security agencies adopting biometric identification, digital identity, and AI systems should be required to justify the need for the technology before acquiring it and to build independent oversight, audit trails, and human rights…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (285+ words) New Orleans-based ID verification provider IDScan.net has acknowledged the major breach of one of its databases, that exposed more than 170 million scanned identity documents, including 153 million driver’s licenses. IDScan, widely known for its VeriScan age and identity check software,…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (366+ words) Whether because of its age, its product focus or its relatively anemic branding, Microsoft has not caught much public scrutiny in debates over age assurance. Apple and Google, which make phones, run their operating systems and manage their app stores,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (358+ words) The 2026 Industry Survey from the Biometrics Institute compiles feedback from 144 professionals from across the biometrics industry. Embedded AI is the most important development of the last 12 months, 21 percent of industry professionals say. AI nearly doubled from 11 percent last year to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) The trademarked technology combines OCR data extraction for any type of document with selfie biometrics and returns a similarity score for organizations to use in flexible, risk-based decisions, according to the announcement. The process is completed locally on the user’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (547+ words) Post-quantum migration appears to be moving from laboratory research toward commercial identity products, as governments prepare national identity infrastructure for the quantum era. The latest example comes from Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) which plans to integrate prototype post-quantum cryptography protocols and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (375+ words) Customers scan an identity document and capture a live facial image. The system verifies the document, performs liveness detection and matches the live face biometric with the identity document portrait before completing the identity check. “As more customer journeys move…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (330+ words) Fobi AI, WISeKey, and Atsign announced updates this week that illustrate how different parts of the digital identity ecosystem are preparing for the transition. In 2024, NIST standardized ML-KEM for shared secrets and ML-DSA and SLH-DSA for digital signatures. At the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1037+ words) GSA said this week that its Federal Identity and Cybersecurity Division is updating the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM) architecture to support post-quantum cryptography while its laboratory for testing physical access control systems begins evaluating quantum-resistant technology. GSA…...