2026-05-19
Per Henrikson
iProov Verified Meetings, which enables organizations to authenticate the identity of participants in video calls without disrupting the user experience.
The integration brings iDenfy’s AI-powered identity verification and automated AML screening directly into RATO’s mobile banking app, enabling new customers to complete full KYC checks in a single, real-time flow.
OCR Studio has updated its document scanning tool with a new anti-fraud system that detects a wider range of AI-generated and morphed identity documents, including those made by ChatGPT, NanoBanana, Grok, Midjourney and others.
2026-05-18
Ian Fleming
The Republic of Armenia has approved the introduction of a new biometric system regulation presented by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Arpine Sargsyan. The draft laws “On Identity Document” was adopted at the second reading and in full during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of Armenia last week.
The King’s Speech outlined the government’s legislative priorities for the year ahead, including an upcoming Bill covering Digital Identity, called the Digital Access to Services Bill. The focus of the Bill is to modernise how citizens interact with public services.
YouTube is making its AI face-swap detection tool available to all creators 18 and older. The company announced the expansion on its community platform. Previously, Likeness Detection was only a pilot for YouTube Partner Program members.
2026-05-19
Ian Fleming
Although deep learning–based detection methods have achieved strong performance, they often suffer from limited cross-dataset generalization, sensitivity to manipulation-specific artifacts, and reduced interpretability.
Humanoid robots in Hubei, China are being assigned official identity numbers in a new initiative designed to track their full lifecycle, marking the first such deployment in the country.
2026-05-11
Ian Fleming
Gov. Kathy Hochul has previewed sweeping new measures that would block minors from accessing betting apps and limit how companies target users.
For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private Network (VPN) usage surges as residents scramble to maintain their privacy and anonymity.
The European Union all but mandated the use of age verification technologies by large social platforms by provisionally finding that Meta broke digital rules by
