Digital identity leaders shepherd wallets into the mainstream

Discussion and debate at the European Identity and Cloud (EIC 2024) conference focused largely on how to achieve trust among stakeholders with decentralized digital identity, and the progress towards putting transformative theories about how transactions should work into practical use. The event, held by KuppingerCole last week, brought together many of the most influential voices in biometrics and digital ID. Read all our coverage here.

Reports by Joel R. McConvey, Masha Borak, and Chris Burt.

Biometric Update coverage of EIC 2024

ToIP pitches trust-spanning protocol for digital ID and data

The rules that determine how much and how a digital identity or piece of data is trusted are set by the authority of each digital ecosystem – often a national ecosystem operated by a government or a corporate ecosystem operated according to company policy.

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CTO of Digidentity introduces the hybrid wallet at EIC 2024

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Bringing ethics into the discussion on digital identity

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Kantara Initiative launches group devoted to deepfake injection attack threats

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Decentralized identity takes center stage at EIC

Significant time at EIC 2024 has been devoted to cracking open the language of digital identity, and decentralized identity (DID)…

Effective digital identity requires strong foundations: a call for collaborators

Several of the most influential non-profit organizations in digital identity took the stage at KuppingerCole’s EIC 2024 (European Identity and…

EIC session explores the future of travel with digital travel credentials

Travel is already one of the more visible touchpoints for biometrics in many people’s lives. But facial recognition systems for…

Digital identity industry needs to communicate better with relying parties

One of the more existentially pressing questions being discussed at EIC 2024 is the digital identity sector’s version of the…

Wallet-to-wallet coverage: digital identity opportunity arrives with eIDAS 2.0

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Article Topics

biometrics  |  decentralized ID  |  digital identity  |  digital wallets  |  EIC 2024  |  eIDAS  |  EU Digital Identity Wallet  |  KuppingerCole