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Tobago launches sub-national digital ID for public service access

By Ayang Macdonald

Sep 4, 2026 - A digital ID system dubbed Tobago ID to ease access to services has been launched for residents of the island…

UK guidance indicates only gov’t digital ID wallet will get primary credentials

By Chris Burt

Sep 3, 2026 - An update to a webpage from the UK’s Office for Digital Identities and Attributes (OfDIA) providing guidance on using the…

Continuous trust and infrastructure join AI as biometrics industry’s key concerns

By Chris Burt

Sep 4, 2026 - The biometrics industry is scarcely recognizable compared to when the Biometrics Institute launched 25 years ago, or when its first…

Unico responds to ‘DIY Deepfakes,’ fraud spike with authentication orchestration

By Chris Burt

Sep 4, 2026 - Unico has put numbers to the dramatic rise in volume of sophisticated and AI-powered fraud attempts this year, and introduced…

Gabon turns to Rwanda for digital identity, government expertise

By Ayang Macdonald

Sep 4, 2026 - Gabon has reached out to Rwanda for collaboration on the implementation of a digital government ecosystem as the Central African…

Authologic becomes registered issuer of EUDI-ready digital credentials in Poland

By Abhishek Jadhav

Sep 3, 2026 - Authologic has become a registered issuer of non-qualified electronic attestations of attributes (EAAs) in Poland, allowing the identity verification company…

Combined ID doc scan and selfie biometrics from OCR Studio gets IP protection

By Chris Burt

Sep 4, 2026 - Biometric identity verification has typically been carried out with a photo of the user’s ID document, followed by a selfie…

Florida modernizes driver's license enrollment with Veridos biometric capture

By Abhishek Jadhav

Sep 4, 2026 - Florida is modernizing the enrollment process behind its driver's licenses and state IDs, deploying new biometric capture equipment to standardize…

Asia-Pacific digital identity rollout reveals widening regional divide

By Lu-Hai Liang

Sep 3, 2026 - Asia-Pacific is building one of the world's largest digital identity ecosystems, but not through a single model. A new regional…

World releases open-source toolkit for privacy-preserving identity proofs

By Joel R. McConvey

Sep 3, 2026 - World has released ProveKit, which new documentation from the biometric proof of personhood (PoP) firm calls “a production-ready zero-knowledge proving…

Florida modernizes driver’s license enrollment with Veridos biometric capture
Abhishek Jadhav | 54 minutes ago

Tobago launches sub-national digital ID for public service access
Ayang Macdonald | 3 hours ago

Unico responds to ‘DIY Deepfakes,’ fraud spike with authentication orchestration
Chris Burt | 4 hours ago

Gabon turns to Rwanda for digital identity, government expertise
Ayang Macdonald | 5 hours ago

Continuous trust and infrastructure join AI as biometrics industry’s key concerns
Chris Burt | 5 hours ago

Combined ID doc scan and selfie biometrics from OCR Studio gets IP protection
Chris Burt | 6 hours ago

World releases open-source toolkit for privacy-preserving identity proofs
Joel R. McConvey | 20 hours ago

Asia-Pacific digital identity rollout reveals widening regional divide
Lu-Hai Liang | 21 hours ago

Authologic becomes registered issuer of EUDI-ready digital credentials in Poland
Abhishek Jadhav | 21 hours ago

UK guidance indicates only gov’t digital ID wallet will get primary credentials
Chris Burt | Yesterday

Mitek’s passive liveness impresses in biometric image benchmark
Abhishek Jadhav | Yesterday

Fragomen-SICPA JV adds Idemia biometrics to assemble end-to-end identity platform
Ashok Singal | Yesterday

Korea’s telecom giants launch QR ID verification campaign
Lu-Hai Liang | Yesterday

Yoti withdrawing ID app from Spain to avoid undermining biometric security
Chris Burt | Yesterday

Age verification brings the privacy debate to vaping
Thomas Chen | Yesterday

2.8B still excluded from digital ID as new gender gaps emerge: World Bank
Lu-Hai Liang | Yesterday

TSA, CBP expand biometric and digital ID programs for air travel
Lu-Hai Liang | Yesterday

More than 170M ID scans for sale on dark web in breach allegedly traced to IDScan.net
Joel R. McConvey | Yesterday

US mDL ecosystem grows as states add wallets, TSA support
Joel R. McConvey | Yesterday

Anthropic pushes Claude deeper into agentic commerce as identity standards evolve
Joel R. McConvey | Yesterday

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Listen: From passkeys to digital trust with FIDO’s Andrew Shikiar

By Joel R. McConvey

Aug 28, 2026 - There’s a shift happening in identity and authentication. What was once a point-in-time affair – a check at onboarding, or…

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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 | 2 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 | 3 weeks ago

Prove plans launch of privacy-preserving biometric binding with new IP
Chris Burt | 3 weeks ago

GuyID combines IDV with reputation for online dating
Joel R. McConvey | 3 weeks ago

New framework argues government AI depends on strong DPI
Lu-Hai Liang | 4 weeks ago

Why Veridas and Fourthline are building a new kind of identity platform
Joel R. McConvey | 1 month 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 | 2 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 | 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s new banking rules signal a new era for biometric identity verification
Jesus Aragon | 3 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.