2026-11-10
Ian Fleming
For Regula, the award highlights a company’s core approach to identity verification: making security checks easier for legitimate users while detecting and preventing fraud. From document and biometric verification solutions to the Regula IDV Platform, Regula works to remove unnecessary steps, reduce friction, and make the entire process more convenient without compromising security.
Presence Verification is claimed to significantly improve deepfake detection and detects coercion with more than 98% accuracy. Presence Verification keeps friction low, with funnel conversion above 90%.
Sardine has introduced Know Your Human (KYH), a protocol designed to make human identifiers available to merchants and issuers when a purchase is placed by an AI shopping agent. The identifiers covered include device ID, device fingerprint, IP address, email, and phone number, with KYC and identity verification details included in extended use cases.
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.
Four months after the end of the transition period under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), the bloc's public list of crypto firms operating without authorization mostly records the output of one national supervisor. Italy's Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) filed 95% of it.
Compulsory registration begins in 2027, with face and fingerprint biometrics for adults and alternative enrollment methods for those unable to provide them
2026-11-08
Ian Fleming
EBE Technologies developed Adaptive Capture, an AI-powered solution that allows transportation providers to verify required documents and photos while drivers are still at the pickup or delivery stop.
Some of the first age verification laws are starting to roll out across the United States. One of them requires iPhone owners to take a selfie so that Apple’s AI can verify their age.
Paravision confirms its State Department contract covers passport and visa photo verification, including detection of deepfakes and manipulated images.
2026-11-09
Per Henrikson
The Israel National Cyber Directorate has published the draft National Digital Identity Strategy for public comment. The document was formulated by a steering committee established in June 2025 at the request of the head of the directorate's Biometric Applications and Identity Unit.
German drivers will be able to carry their license on their phone from the end of November, in the same i-Kfz app that already stores digital vehicle registration documents. The Federal Ministry of Transport has confirmed the timing, narrowing an earlier target of the end of 2026. No exact date has been announced.
The UK Home Office says the public is aligned with the government's planned legislation for police facial recognition use and proposes an oversight body.
