2026-10-19
Ian Fleming
World launched World ID app, a place to store cryptographic Proofs, such as Proof of Human, Proof of Presence, and Proof of Attributes.
After two years in stealth, AiID has unveiled Frictionless ID, a credential intelligence platform designed to assess the authenticity of identity documents before facial matching, liveness detection and other identity verification steps.
Socure introduced DocV Omega, an evolution of its Document Verification product that evaluates document and biometric evidence alongside identity, device, behavioral, network, and journey context.
2027-08-20
Ian Fleming
The country’s chip-based national identity card, first piloted in Cluj county, is now issued nationally, with more than EUR 150 million in European funds financing the first batches in 2026.
The state is using its digital identity law as a model for having individuals, not governments, control their personal data, Utah’s chief privacy officer said.
Under the EU framework, citizens get to choose which parts of their identity they share. An age check could come back as a simple yes or no, with no photo of your card changing hands at all.
2026-11-04
Per Henrikson
Police use AI to review evidence, resolve identities, link cases, trace money, and detect synthetic media. The biggest gains come from connecting data sources, not from any single tool.
Proof's agent identity wallet and the open x401 protocol bring verified legal identity and signed transaction authorization to AI agents, with support for Meta's Muse, ChatGPT, Grok and Claude, and pay-per-use verification.
To help smooth the process and reduce the risk of multiple, potentially non-interoperable approaches emerging, the EPC has approved the development of Scarlet (Strong Customer Authentication Acceptance Rulebook and Liability Framework for EUDIW Transactions), providing a common standard for the more than 3000 PSPs and the 27+ EU Digital Identity Wallet providers expected to operate in the EU/EEA.
Germany's Bundestag on Thursday passed the Digitale Identitätengesetz (DIdG) — the legal framework for the country's state-issued digital identity wallet — while the privacy architecture that the EU mandate underpinning the law explicitly requires as mandatory will be absent when the wallet goes live
