FinCEN expands student aid fraud crackdown beyond identity verification
The U.S. Treasury Department is expanding its campaign against federal student aid fraud beyond applicant identity verification, asking banks and…
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Texas targets internet infrastructure to enforce age assurance law
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose case against adult content providers in the Supreme Court set a precedent on age…
SOLO pilots reusable identity verification across US banks
Banks are testing whether identity verification can become portable across the U.S. financial system, potentially allowing customers to reuse document…
Governments converge on age assurance but diverge on how to implement it
Governments around the world are increasingly aligned on the view that minors need stronger protections against online harms, in the…
Iowa law puts labeling, AI reminder requirements on conversational chatbots
New legislation in Iowa puts guidelines on AI chatbots. Senate File 2417 passed unanimously in the House and Senate, meaning…
New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act
The New York Legislature has passed the final rules relating to social media age restrictions under the Stop Addictive Feeds…
US standardizes digital mortgages while UK waits on digital ID strategy
Electronic mortgage adoption continues to accelerate, with advances in digital identity and standardization putting identity in a key infrastructure role…
EU divisions persist over US border biometric data framework
European Union governments remain divided over a proposed agreement that would allow U.S. authorities to query national databases containing fingerprints…
Missouri’s new age assurance law specifies data storage restrictions
Missouri’s age assurance law applying to online pornography is back – and so, it would seem, is PornHub, now featuring…
US passport photo plan points to new layer of remote biometric verification
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this month that the State Department is preparing to make passport applications “almost…
