2026-07-13
Per Henrikson
BOYLE Sports is using Jumio’s Identity Verification and Doc Proof solutions to automatically and rapidly verify new players’ identities during onboarding.
iDenfy has integrated Austria's Handy-Signatur e-signature into its platform, enabling non-document identity verification for over 4 million Austrian citizens to streamline business onboarding.
2026-07-13
Ian Fleming
The State Department is preparing to make passport applications “almost all” online, including a process in which an applicant uses a phone or computer camera and the government’s security system to “verify the facial ID.”
Over the past 12 months, mandatory age-verification regulations have been spreading rapidly across the world. The era of anonymous browsing — and perhaps the very concept of online privacy — may be quickly coming to an end.
The Indian government escalates regulations on digital platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Meta to enhance online safety and accountability, especially regarding AI-driven technologies and child protection.
2026-07-13
Per Henrikson
Canadian startup deepidv and fraud prevention developer Scam.AI will work together under a new partnership that also includes software integration.
Lissi is expanding its Wallet Connector Suite with a new Software Development Kit (SDK), enabling financial institutions to embed ID-wallet functionality directly into their existing mobile applications.
2026-07-13
Ian Fleming
eIDAS 2.0 deadlines are closing in on QTSPs and relying parties. By December 2026, every EU Member State must offer at least one certified EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet, and roughly twelve months later a long list of organisations will be legally obliged to accept it.
The law has already been killed and brought back from the dead several times. In December 2025, a federal district court judge ruled that SB2420 likely violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and blocked it. The state appealed, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction.
