2026-09-06
Per Henrikson
Authologic has been registered by Narodowy Bank Polski as a Trust Service Provider to issue Electronic Attestations of Attributes for upcoming EU Digital Identity Wallets ahead of eIDAS 2.0 requirements.
Spanish data protection regulatory AEPD has interpreted the EU’s General Data Protection Rule’s (GDPR’s) definition of “biometrics” in a way that may foreclose the possibility of having high assurance for use cases that are supposed to require it. Under GDPR, biometric data used for unique identification qualifies as “special category” data.
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.
Utah has agreed not to enforce a controversial law requiring age verification on adult content websites and to crack down on VPNs that seek to circumvent it.
2026-09-07
Ian Fleming
NIST, Congress and Treasury are advancing cryptographic digital identity as AI fraud and mass identity breaches expose limits of document-based verification.
The proposed biometric authentication system that takes three factors in account: sensitivity of the displayed content, the location of the device, and the viewing permissions of people nearby.
The company says ProveKit helps solve this problem, by enabling World ID users who store identity documents in the app to do it “by themselves on their own devices.”
2026-09-03
Per Henrikson
The latest update to the guidance page indicates that certified digital verification service (DVS) providers will have access to only derived credentials.
US age assurance enters implementation as courts and lawmakers refine rules, porn sites geoblock instead of verifying age, and NetChoice keeps fighting social media laws.
California lawmakers have exempted open-source operating systems and software from the state’s upcoming age-verification law, protecting Linux, BSD and their wider software ecosystems.
