2026-02-02
Per Henrikson
Trust Stamp delivered a minimum viable product for its stablecoin-focused Wallet of Wallets platform at the end of December 2025 and signed a letter of intent with a Nasdaq-listed company for an initial deployment.
The solution helps insurance companies reduce fraud risk, improve efficiency and safeguard profitability by enabling real-time identity verification automation, seamlessly integrated into the insurance workflow. For consumers, it can help provide a faster, low friction and streamlined interaction with insurers.
The OpenAge Initiative, the reusable age check system launched in November 2025 under the leadership of Singapore-based compliance firm k-ID, continues to attract new members in the biometrics and age assurance space.
2026-01-28
Ian Fleming
A research centre to further digital ID aims has been opened in Angers, joining start-ups, researchers, industry leaders, and academics together to explore competitive use cases. With strong regulatory requirements surrounding digital ID, these main players will be able to innovate, train and test digital identity models as part of the European project. The ID
A U.S.–Peru security cooperation initiative announced last week puts biometric identity technology inside Peru’s prison system as Washington accelerates a broader strategy of exporting biometric collection, training, and cross-border identity checks to partner nations.
PAR Technology announced it has agreed to acquire Bridg, an identity resolution and shopper intelligence platform operated as a division of Cardlytics, in a deal valued at $27.5 million, subject to customary purchase-price adjustments that could raise the total consideration to as much as $30 million.
2026-02-01
Per Henrikson
In this first of three DHS RIVR evaluation tracks, Paravision was among a small group of vendors that met DHS’s highest Goals across all core accuracy and reliability metrics — and the only vendor to also meet the rally’s most demanding Goal: maintaining < 0.01% false match rates when tested against demographically similar – look-alike – imposters.
Easily integrate Descope auth and access control with MCP servers built in Python. Use the Python MCP SDK to bring existing roles, permissions, and policies into your MCP servers.
In the race to innovate, software has repeatedly reinvented how we define identity, trust, and access. In the 1990's, the web made every server a perimeter. In the 2010's, the cloud made every identity a workload. Here in 2026, agentic AI makes every action autonomous.
2026-02-03
Ian Fleming
The order expands on an earlier directive issued to Meta, which owns Facebook, after scammers shifted to impersonating individuals who were previously not covered.
Children’s privacy and online safety is in the spotlight in 2026. At the end of 2025, the House Energy & Commerce Committee released nineteen draft bills focused on minors’ privacy and online safety.
