Scottish Government selects partner for digital identity verification service
Software consultancy firm Scott Logic has entered a new partnership with the Scottish Government to develop a new digital identity…
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Canada engages business group to establish digital identity standards
Canada’s CIO Strategy Council has been engaged by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and Innovation Science and Economic Development…
Another quarter, another couple of sobering digital ID theft reports
Digital biometric identification’s future gets brighter with just about every quarter. A new report from a digital ID vendor indicates…
UK plans single digital identity to access all services in an expanding government website
Gov.uk will continue to subsume other public-facing government sites as it creates user accounts and a digital identity solution that…
Canadian digital identity strategy to emphasize open standards for interoperability
Canada has launched a new strategy for its digital operations, which focusses significantly on the need for trusted digital identities…
UK age-verification firms join related EU project
Members of a UK online safety association are part of an EU group working to create a reliable age verification…
Biometrics in retail: Yoti, PayByFace, and Heslo close new partnerships
A number of companies have unveiled updates to their biometric and digital identity authentication platforms for ecommerce applications. Eftpos announced…
UK government throws a bone to its troubled digital ID-assurance program
The UK has put its troubled digital ID-assurance program, Verify, on life support as government officials stoke development of a…
UK security bill to introduce biometric age verification for social media registration
New Online Security Bill published by UK government this week will see the introduction of comprehensive rules to prevent online…
Webinar: Considerations for Deploying FIDO in the Enterprise
Webinar: Considerations for Deploying FIDO in the Enterprise Online May 20, 2021 at 1pm PT/4pm ET Passwords are archaic, and…
