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Firms pursue continuous identity in push to meet agentic paradigm shift

Israeli cybersecurity startup NewCore has emerged from stealth boasting $66 million in investment from Cyberstarts, Index Ventures and Evolution Equity…

 

Roblox shows off Persona age estimation as it launches age-based accounts

Roblox is on a mission to prove that its facial age estimation system works as intended. The mega-popular gaming platform,…

 

iDAKTO acquires cybersecurity specialist Stelau to challenge digital ID leaders

iDAKTO has acquired France-based cybersecurity and digital identity infrastructure firm Stelau as it gears up to challenge the leading global…

 

How open standards are reshaping Colombia’s digital identity stack

Colombia’s five-day verifiable credentials bootcamp in Bogotá may have looked like a small technical exercise. In reality, it represented the…

 

CertaScan infant biometrics footprint system installed at 3 Florida hospitals

Infant biometrics company CertaScan Technologies has deployed its proprietary infant safety system at a trio of hospitals in Palm Beach,…

 

Europe seeks feedback on plan for sharing biometric data with non-EU law enforcement

The European Commission has requested public feedback on its plans for a reciprocal biometric data-sharing framework for police with non-EU…

 

Fime accredited by DIACC to assess compliance with Canada’s digital trust framework

Fime has been accredited by the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) as an official auditor of the…

 

Failed NZ$33M border biometrics project sparks integrity investigation

New Zealand’s Immigration Minister Erica Stanford has rebuked a ministry over a failed biometrics project that wasted tens of millions…

 

Update on identity, age verification for Claude prompts user pushback

Anthropic, developer of the popular chatbot Claude, has updated its privacy policy with a notice that it could ask users…

 

Passkey adoption stalls at scale despite strong interest, new study shows

The FIDO Alliance and HID have released new research showing a widening gap between enterprise confidence in identity security and…

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