Asia-Pacific digital identity rollout reveals widening regional divide
Asia-Pacific is building one of the world’s largest digital identity ecosystems, but not through a single model. A new regional…
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Deepfakes become part of organized crime’s industrial technology stack
In coverage of how generative AI technology and deepfaked biometrics have transformed the fraud landscape, the word “scale” comes up…
Trident adds enterprise AI platform to growing digital infrastructure business
Singaporean firm Trident has announced an equity investment move that makes it the commercial partner of U.S.-based Digital Innovations Group…
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…
Next Biometrics sees growing government demand in Taiwan and Malaysia
Next Biometrics has received three government orders from Taiwan and Malaysia during the second quarter of 2026. The contracts cover…
OCR Studio KYC onboarding tool for APAC recognizes diverse character sets
Identity verification provider OCR Studio, which specializes in advanced optical character recognition, is unveiling an AI system for Know Your…
Saviynt expands push into Asia-Pacific and Japan with new distributor and sales chief
Saviynt has strengthened its expansion strategy in Asia‑Pacific and Japan with two significant moves. It has appointed Exclusive Networks as…
South Korea’s SK Telecom joins FIDO Alliance board
SK Telecom has been appointed to the board of the FIDO Alliance, the global body that develops authentication and security…
Singapore tells Meta to expand facial recognition as scam ad concerns in APAC grow
Scams have proliferated on social media and Asia has suffered a plague of it. The surge in social media-enabled scamming…
MyDigital ID PR campaign targeting Malaysian diversity and misconceptions hailed a success
Malaysia struggled with adoption for its national digital ID system but the latest figures suggest this is starting to ease….
