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EU Council advances business wallet framework for corporate digital identity

European Business Wallets could create a market for rapid online authentication and risk intelligence checks to replace inefficient manual checks…

 

Yoti presses universities for evidence, weighs legal action over age assurance paper

Yoti has escalated its dispute with academics from Georgia Tech and UC Irvine, sending a second letter pressing the universities…

 

FOSI reports suggest support growing for Australia’s social media age minimum

The Australian experiment in establishing a minimum age for using social media presents two large problems for those who frame…

 

Frontex warns EES border queues could persist for another two years

The EU’s biometric-based Entry-Exit System (EES) may continue to cause long queues at borders for another two years, a Frontex…

 

Europe moves to secure sovereign cybersecurity and chips

Europe’s push for sovereignty over its digital systems has new developments in cybersecurity and semiconductor manufacturing. New initiatives from Palo…

 

Nigeria links digital identity ambitions to digital sovereignty agenda

Nigeria is increasingly framing digital identity, data infrastructure and online services as matters of digital sovereignty, as the country seeks…

 

Canada joins push for social media age assurance with new digital safety law

Canada will follow Australia in prohibiting kids under 16 from having social media accounts. CBC News reports that the measure…

 

UK government courts digital ID industry after months of friction

The UK government established an independent advisory panel on Wednesday to provide independent support for, insight into and oversight of…

 

Fingerprint Cards builds beyond sensors with AllKey platform expansion

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) is continuing its shift from biometric sensors to broader authentication and identity platforms through a new ByteSeal…

 

ICE moves to keep Parsons embedded in HSI overseas biometric alert program

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intends to award Parsons Corp. a sole-source contract to support a Homeland Security Investigations…

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