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Hollywood gives indiscriminate live facial recognition the superhero treatment

By Chris Burt

Sep 9, 2026 - The cliché popularized by Spider-Man movies that “with great power comes great responsibility” clashes with the popular quote by English…

African delegations study India’s digital identity systems under UNDP mission

By Lu-Hai Liang

Sep 9, 2026 - Delegations from several African countries have completed a two‑week mission to India, learning from its experience in building digital public…

Listen: How age assurance platforms earn trust

By Joel R. McConvey

Sep 4, 2026 - The world has more or less decided that some online services should be age-restricted. The question now is, how to…

Device-level child safety controls to be legislated in UK as deadline expires

By Joel R. McConvey

Sep 9, 2026 - The UK government will introduce primary legislation requiring major tech platforms to build device level protections for children that will…

France expands digital identity access in overseas territories

By Lu-Hai Liang

Sep 9, 2026 - France Titres has launched a new process that makes it easier for French nationals in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and…

IB powers touchless fingerprint biometrics capture on standard police smartphones

By Chris Burt

Sep 9, 2026 - Touchless fingerprint biometrics are giving law enforcement officers the ability to identify people quickly in the field without dedicated hardware.…

RAND warns security biometrics, digital ID can become tools for targeting

By Anthony Kimery

Sep 9, 2026 - According to a new RAND Europe report, security agencies adopting biometric identification, digital identity, and AI systems should be required…

Zambia joins Africa’s PKI push with new national trust infrastructure

By Ashok Singal

Sep 9, 2026 - Zambia has established a national cryptographic trust layer for its expanding digital economy, joining a growing group of African countries…

Australia shifts online safety debate from age checks to platform accountability

By Joel R. McConvey

Sep 9, 2026 - The first country to put age checks on social media sites is now the first to propose a digital duty…

From data residency to tech sovereignty: Europe rethinks control

By Ashok Singal

Sep 7, 2026 - A government can require its sensitive data to stay within national borders. It can require that data to be encrypted.…

Federal regulators say mDLs can be used for bank identity checks

By Anthony Kimery

Sep 9, 2026 - Banks and credit unions can use state-issued mobile driver’s licenses and other government-issued verifiable digital credentials to verify the identities…

Irish regulator opens investigation into X’s age assurance, parental controls

By Joel R. McConvey

Sep 9, 2026 - Irish regulator Coimisiún na Meán has launched its first investigation under Ireland’s Online Safety Code. The target is X, the…

Australia shifts online safety debate from age checks to platform accountability
Joel R. McConvey | 15 minutes ago

Hollywood gives indiscriminate live facial recognition the superhero treatment
Chris Burt | 24 minutes ago

Federal regulators say mDLs can be used for bank identity checks
Anthony Kimery | 54 minutes ago

France expands digital identity access in overseas territories
Lu-Hai Liang | 1 hour ago

African delegations study India’s digital identity systems under UNDP mission
Lu-Hai Liang | 2 hours ago

Zambia joins Africa’s PKI push with new national trust infrastructure
Ashok Singal | 2 hours ago

Irish regulator opens investigation into X’s age assurance, parental controls
Joel R. McConvey | 2 hours ago

Device-level child safety controls to be legislated in UK as deadline expires
Joel R. McConvey | 3 hours ago

IB powers touchless fingerprint biometrics capture on standard police smartphones
Chris Burt | 3 hours ago

RAND warns security biometrics, digital ID can become tools for targeting
Anthony Kimery | 3 hours ago

Google warns AI agents are automating credential theft at unprecedented scale
Abhishek Jadhav | 6 hours ago

Hopae expands cross-border digital identity network with Saudi, Mexico deals
Lu-Hai Liang | 6 hours ago

Companies House gains access to UK’s National Fraud Database
Lu-Hai Liang | 6 hours ago

Yubico expands OpenAI security key bundle to 10 more countries
Abhishek Jadhav | 6 hours ago

IDScan confirms breach after 170M identity documents put up for sale
Joel R. McConvey | 23 hours ago

Microsoft launches Age API, following OS-level declared age range model
Joel R. McConvey | 24 hours ago

IEEE developing parental consent standard for online age assurance
Joel R. McConvey | Yesterday

Touch Biometrix’ TFT technology reaches market with Lakota FAP60 scanner
Chris Burt | Yesterday

Advance.AI targets regional growth as SE Asia’s local IAD provider
Chris Burt | Yesterday

Myanmar’s digital ID strategy comes amid a fraught landscape
Lu-Hai Liang | Yesterday

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From data residency to tech sovereignty: Europe rethinks control

By Ashok Singal

Sep 7, 2026 - A government can require its sensitive data to stay within national borders. It can require that data to be encrypted.…

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Listen: How age assurance platforms earn trust
Joel R. McConvey | 5 days ago

Listen: From passkeys to digital trust with FIDO’s Andrew Shikiar
Joel R. McConvey | 2 weeks ago

Online channels without verification face open season from agentic fraud: Incode CEO
Chris Burt | 2 weeks ago

HarmonEyes brings eye tracking technology to the age assurance space
Joel R. McConvey | 3 weeks ago

From verifying humans to AI agents: Socure prepares for the next identity challenge
Ashok Singal | 3 weeks ago

Podcast: Deepfake fraud goes industrial as identity defenses evolve
Joel R. McConvey | 4 weeks ago

Prove plans launch of privacy-preserving biometric binding with new IP
Chris Burt | 4 weeks ago

GuyID combines IDV with reputation for online dating
Joel R. McConvey | 4 weeks ago

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Age verification brings the privacy debate to vaping

By Thomas Chen

Sep 3, 2026 - By Thomas Chen, Chief Technology Officer of IKE Tech The most consequential age-verification deployment happening right now is not on…

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Why a strong credential is only the start of the trust chain
Henry Patishman | 2 weeks ago

The future of driver license security: Advanced identity technologies and trusted credentialing
Steve Yonkers | 3 weeks ago

The death of the pixel: Why cryptographic provenance is the next identity frontier
Udi Abram | 3 weeks ago

Account renting exposes the limits of current gig worker screening
Raj Ananthanpillai | 4 weeks ago

Mexico’s new banking rules signal a new era for biometric identity verification
Jesus Aragon | 4 weeks ago

Continuous adaptive trust is the new fraud detection mandate
Dan Holmes | 4 weeks ago

Digital Identity in Developing Nations

With UN SDG 16.9 calling for legal identity for all by 2030, Biometric Update is taking a special in-depth focus on digital ID projects in developing countries.