2026-02-18
Per Henrikson
IDnow hires former Ukraine digital minister Liudmyla Rabchynska to steer EU identity wallet and eIDAS 2.0 regulatory strategy.
Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks.
2026-02-16
Ian Fleming
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has given his word that the country’s national digital ID system will be rolled out before the end of 2026.
AsiaVerify is an intelligence RegTech platform founded in 2019 that draws on official sources across 14 Asian jurisdictions, providing users with real-time insights into 447 million companies, including ownership structures, ownership, risk indicators and compliance status - all through a single interface.
Financial services firms operate in an environment where identity verification sits at the center of revenue generation and risk management, yet 66% reported that verification technologies produce inconsistent results, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence reports.
2026-02-16
Ian Fleming
Keycard has acquired Anchor.dev to extend identity and access governance into autonomous coding agents, embedding policy enforcement directly into agent workflows.
In this first of three DHS RIVR evaluation tracks, Paravision was among a small group of vendors that met DHS’s highest Goals across all core accuracy and reliability metrics — and the only vendor to also meet the rally’s most demanding Goal: maintaining < 0.01% false match rates when tested against demographically similar – look-alike – imposters.
Easily integrate Descope auth and access control with MCP servers built in Python. Use the Python MCP SDK to bring existing roles, permissions, and policies into your MCP servers.
2026-02-18
Per Henrikson
The minimum digital age for autonomous access to social networking platforms, video-sharing services and open communication services is set at 16; children aged 13 or over can only access them with (...) express and verified parental consent," reads the proposal.
The Grok controversy has triggered coordinated regulatory scrutiny across the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), and multiple other jurisdictions, signalling growing global focus on generative deepfakes as a platform governance and child-safety issue.
Lawmakers are aiming to add guardrails to the most addictive social media sites when it comes to usage by kids. But privacy and civil rights advocates are warning of significant unintended consequences.
