2026-03-23
Per Henrikson
Precise Biometrics and Fingerprint Cards said their boards have adopted a joint merger plan that would combine the two Swedish companies into a broader biometrics and identity business spanning fingerprint, iris, face and palm technologies.
IDEMIA and Indicio's strategic partnership combines biometric identity proofing, root-of-trust identity verification, and verifiable credentials to deliver a portable, privacy-preserving identity verification capability that works across institutions and borders, with best-in-class protection against deepfake and synthetic identity fraud.
Entrust and property fraud protection company Veyco announced a partnership that brings fully digital and secure document signing to the property market.
2026-03-26
Ian Fleming
The market is shifting to a ‘Three-Party Model’ (Issuer-Holder-Verifier). The next frontier is business and agentic AI identity.
Apple now requires users in the UK to verify their ages and to prove they’re 18 years old or above before they can access “certain services or features."
EDMO, a US leading provider of AI-driven enrollment automation solutions for higher education, announced the launch of Student ID Verification, an advanced AI-powered solution designed to help universities validate student identities, prevent application fraud, and ensure trust across the admissions lifecycle.
By combining AppViewX’s automated CLM and PKI with Eos’s agentic governance and privileged access control, the platform delivers an integrated solution for AI agent and machine identity security.
Paper proposes a hybrid feature-selection framework combining genetic algorithms (GA) with LASSO regularization to reduce redundancy in ResNet50 embeddings from 2048 to 120–170 features (>90% reduction). Experiments on FaceForensics++ (FF++) and Celeb-DF v2 under C0, C23, and C40 compression show improved accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.
2026-03-24
Per Henrikson
This shift, building on the December 2025 under-16 social media ban, forces platforms to adopt privacy-preserving,, proportionate verification methods, guided by new OAIC guidance to ensure safety without compromising user privacy.
A recent judgement by a high court in Kenya considers a person’s duly registered phone number as a personal digital identifier that must be sufficiency protected from all forms of data breaches and privacy infractions.
