Self completes $9M seed round, introduces points scheme for verification
Self, which provides zero-knowledge identity and proof-of-personhood (PoP) infrastructure, has announced the completion of a nine-million-dollar seed raise earlier this…
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Humanity Protocol’s reusable biometric ID adds Mastercard open finance capability
Humanity Protocol, the proof-of-personhood (PoP) framework based on palm biometrics, is teaming up with Mastercard to allow users to quickly…
World ID coming to blockchain gaming, dating age verification, more credentials
A brave new world, a whole new Orb, proof of humanity: World (the company) loves to claim it’s changing the…
Colombia orders World shut-down, citing biometrics compliance failures
The competition regulator of Colombia has ordered an “immediate and permanent” closure of digital identity project World over data protection…
Biometrics Institute spotlights 5 key industry concerns in annual report
Deepfakes are making it difficult for biometric systems to determine who is fake, while bots and AI agents are making…
Tale of two platforms sees Sora flood web with deepfakes, World save the day
For those leading the charge on large language models and generative AI, it is truly the best of times and…
Brazilian parliamentary commission extends investigation into Tools for Humanity
A parliamentary commission in Brazil investigating Tools for Humanity, the company behind the digital identity project World, has approved an…
Public gets chance to invest in World’s biometric digital ID through $270M deal
A group of American crypto investors believe that World’s iris biometrics can provide the universal foundation for digital identity that…
Roundtable launches system to detect bots using behavioral biometrics
Proof of personhood (PoP) has been pitched as a kind of holy grail for digital identity, a baseline for establishing…
‘Cross-platform reputation’ comes to Humanity Protocol with zkTLS
Humanity Protocol’s mainnet is live. And according to a blog post from the on-chain digital identity firm with a current…
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