2026-06-07
Per Henrikson
By adding the primary mobile electronic identification service in the Baltic region, businesses will be able to verify customers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia using their everyday identities (without asking the customer for physical documents during onboarding).
2026-06-04
Per Henrikson
The U.S. technology corporation recently launched digital IDs in Brazil, India, Taiwan and the UK and is now preparing to deploy ID passes to select European Union states this summer. Users in Estonia, Ireland, Spain, France and Italy will be able to scan their passports to create a digital pass in Google Wallet.
Danish citizens have been granted control to verify themselves digitally and prove their age via the official new ID app, AltID. AltID is not expected to replace Denmark’s landscape of digital public tools such as MitID, Rejsekort, or the digital health card, but it will work with the existing MitID system.
Identity Gateway, built on Microsoft Azure, addresses this by providing organisations with a single, standardised API and commercial framework through which they can connect to multiple government-backed and regulated private digital identity schemes.
Vonage, an early leader in operationalizing telecom network data for enterprise use cases, is one of the first companies worldwide to deliver user verification leveraging network intent signals at scale.
2026-05-30
Ian Fleming
Polymarket has started actively targeting users who rely on VPNs to get around its geoblocking rules. The platform now blocks certain IP addresses tied to VPN services and in some cases asks users to verify their identities.
The Group of Seven major industrialized countries agreed on common principles to protect underage internet users from harmful content, at a meeting of their digital and technology ministers held in Paris.
Social media users will need to verify their age with government-issued documents from June 1, following changes to the Online Safety Act 2025 by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
