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Benin and Ethiopia Deepen Digital Ties With Focus on AI and Digital ID - We are Tech

Benin and Ethiopia Deepen Digital Ties With Focus on AI and Digital ID - We are Tech

2026-08-12 Ian Fleming
Benin and Ethiopia are deepening cooperation on digital government, AI and cyber...
Signicat Achieves UK DIATF Certification for Digital Identity and Document Verification

Signicat Achieves UK DIATF Certification for Digital Identity and Document Verification

2026-08-12 Ian Fleming
Signicat has secured UK DIATF certification, validating its NFC-based identity v...
Civitas ID Secures USD$500K Gates Foundation Grant For Open Source Digital Identity

Civitas ID Secures USD$500K Gates Foundation Grant For Open Source Digital Identity

2026-08-12 Ian Fleming
Civitas ID has secured USD$500,000 from the Gates Foundation to build open-sourc...
$30 AI Fraud Kits Are Letting Criminals Walk Right Past Facial Recognition

$30 AI Fraud Kits Are Letting Criminals Walk Right Past Facial Recognition

2026-08-12 Per Henrikson
During a recent interview with BankInfoSecurity, Matt Vega, chief fraud strategi...
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

2026-08-11 Ian Fleming
Spain's national police say they caught a cybercriminal after a momentary techni...
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iDenfy Integrates BankID Norway to Streamline Digital Identity Verification

iDenfy Integrates BankID Norway to Streamline Digital Identity Verification

2026-08-09 Per Henrikson
iDenfy has integrated BankID Norway into its identity platform, allowing Norwegian users to verify their identity using bank credentials to combat a 47% rise in local identity theft.
iDenfy adds Czech Bank iD to verification platform

iDenfy adds Czech Bank iD to verification platform

iDenfy has integrated Czech Bank iD into its identity verification platform, offering a non-document onboarding option for the Czech market.
authID Partners with Art Sales Vault to Bring Biometric Identity Verification to the Art Market

authID Partners with Art Sales Vault to Bring Biometric Identity Verification to the Art Market

Partnership pairs authID's biometric technology with ASV's KYC and compliance platform to help auction houses, galleries, and dealers combat money laundering and identity fraud.

Sumsub signed agentic commerce platform Sumvin

Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows

Identity intelligence company Fideo Intelligence and Sigma360 Partner to Connect Identity with Business Risk Intelligence

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Benin and Ethiopia Deepen Digital Ties With Focus on AI and Digital ID - We are Tech

Benin and Ethiopia Deepen Digital Ties With Focus on AI and Digital ID - We are Tech

2026-08-12 Ian Fleming
Benin and Ethiopia are deepening cooperation on digital government, AI and cybersecurity.Benin has put more than 250 public services online and expanded biometric enrollment.
France’s social media ban imposes universal identity checks on the entire population

France’s social media ban imposes universal identity checks on the entire population

The ban is a major attack on democratic rights and a step towards a police-state dictatorship imposing universal surveillance of working people.
OpenID opens certification for digital ID issuance, verification protocols

OpenID opens certification for digital ID issuance, verification protocols

Digital wallet providers, digital identity and credential issuers, verifiers and government agencies can now use test suites developed by the OpenID Foundation for self-certification to common digital identity and verifiable credentials specifications.

Laos advances digital identity with electronic household registration

DigiLocker and AAERI Launch 'AAERI Verify' for Seamless Document Verification for Indian Students in Australia, ETEduca

DigiLocker and AAERI Launch 'AAERI Verify' for Seamless Document Verification for Indian Students in Australia

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Civitas ID Secures USD$500K Gates Foundation Grant For Open Source Digital Identity

Civitas ID Secures USD$500K Gates Foundation Grant For Open Source Digital Identity

2026-08-12 Ian Fleming
Civitas ID has secured USD$500,000 from the Gates Foundation to build open-source digital identity infrastructure for displaced populations.
L8P8 Launches Loop8ID Age Shield for Privacy-Safe Age Verification

L8P8 Launches Loop8ID Age Shield for Privacy-Safe Age Verification

L8P8 has introduced Loop8ID Age Shield, a privacy-first age verification platform that uses device signals from Apple Inc. and Google to determine user eligibility without collecting personal data.
Explainable AI in Deepfake Detection Techniques

Explainable AI in Deepfake Detection Techniques

Feature attribution, saliency maps, attention mechanisms, SHAP, LIME, and multimodal explanation layers help make model decisions easier to understand.

Daon Develops Five-Patent Architecture for Quantum-Ready Digital Identity

Cloudflare Offers AI Agents an Identity and a Wallet

Scam.ai and Modulate Partner to Deliver Unified Image, Video and Voice Deepfake Detection

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Signicat Achieves UK DIATF Certification for Digital Identity and Document Verification

Signicat Achieves UK DIATF Certification for Digital Identity and Document Verification

2026-08-12 Ian Fleming
Signicat has secured UK DIATF certification, validating its NFC-based identity verification technology for high-trust use cases. This certification enables businesses to perform Right to Work, Right to Rent, and DBS checks using a secure, government-recognized framework, significantly reducing onboarding fraud and regulatory friction.
New Mexico court ruling mandated platform safety overhauls and stricter age-assurance requirements

New Mexico court ruling mandated platform safety overhauls and stricter age-assurance requirements

New Mexico court ruling mandated platform safety overhauls and stricter age-assurance requirements that commentators note effectively push users toward digital ID verification.
New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act

New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act

The New York legislation is also among the first to include specific accuracy minimums for highly effective age assurance.

Conformance framework for EU Digital Identity Wallets arrives with ARF v3.0

EU Registers Campaign Against Mandatory Digital ID and Age Checks

New Jersey Enacts Law Establishing Data Broker Registration Regime and Imposing Prohibitions on Sensitive Data Sales