World’s iris biometrics scans launch in one country, undone in another
World has made its debut in Italy, deploying Orbs to Rome to register “proof of human” with iris biometrics scans….
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Italians required to switch from paper IDs to eIDs by August 2026
Italy has announced that old paper identity cards will no longer be valid starting August 4th, 2026, with the government…
Italy’s regulator releases list of adult platforms covered by age verification law
Another domino in the global game of age verification for adult content sites is about to fall, this one in…
Italy’s biggest digital ID services provider set to introduce annual fees
A state-backed financial and postal services conglomerate in Italy and the country’s biggest digital ID services provider, Poste Italiane, has…
Italy: Nearly 100,000 ID scans from hotel guests found on dark web
Italian authorities have discovered that a malicious actor has obtained tens of thousands of high-resolution scans of passports, ID cards…
Italy gets offline digital wallet access as country advances digitalization
Italy is seeing a seismic shift in its civil status registers as it leaves behind analogue, paper-based recording keeping in…
Italian regulator outlines technical methods for EC white label age assurance app
Italy’s Communications Regulatory Authority, AGCOM, is among the Digital Services Coordinators chosen by the European Commission to participate in the…
Italian regulator holds out hopes to collect fine from Clearview AI
Italy data protection regulator, the Garante, has not given up on collecting the millions of euros in fines it imposed…
Age assurance differs across continents, as Europe, UK take stronger stance than US
The wild frontier of age assurance legislation continues to take shape, as legal decisions and regulatory trends create incremental shifts…
EUDI wallet updates: Izertis joins WE BUILD, Lissi works on IT-Wallet connector
Spanish company Izertis is joining the WE BUILD consortium to participate in the second round of Large Scale Pilots for…
