2026-10-13
Per Henrikson
UK digital identity provider Yoti has integrated Australian-owned ConnectID’s digital identity exchange into its age assurance platform, giving users in Australia the option to use bank account verification for online age checks via Australia’s bank-backed digital identity infrastructure.
Hopae has joined the FIDO Alliance, the industry body known for developing passkey standards, as it expands its focus to digital credentials and authentication for AI agents.
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.
FinCEN permits banks to use government-issued digital credentials for identity checks, but Anderson Insights warns that compliance obligations remain. Accepting government-issued digital credentials does not eliminate fraud risks or banks’ customer identification obligations.
Malta replaces physical seafarer record books with digital credentials in IDSure wallets, enabling secure sea service records and offline access. Cryptographically signed credentials replace physical record books, allowing seafarers to log service at sea and access records through a mobile walletץ
2026-11-04
Per Henrikson
Police use AI to review evidence, resolve identities, link cases, trace money, and detect synthetic media. The biggest gains come from connecting data sources, not from any single tool.
Proof's agent identity wallet and the open x401 protocol bring verified legal identity and signed transaction authorization to AI agents, with support for Meta's Muse, ChatGPT, Grok and Claude, and pay-per-use verification.
2026-10-15
Per Henrikson
Germany's Bundestag on Thursday passed the Digitale Identitätengesetz (DIdG) — the legal framework for the country's state-issued digital identity wallet — while the privacy architecture that the EU mandate underpinning the law explicitly requires as mandatory will be absent when the wallet goes live
QTSPs face an end-2026 deadline for biometric testing under ETSI rules covering presentation attacks, injection attacks and matcher performance. The specification addresses three areas of biometric assurance: presentation attack detection, biometric data injection attack detection and biometric matching performance.
The government of Turkey on Saturday formally banned access to social media platform for children under the age of 15. The law was published today following the Turkish Parliament's adoption of the bill last April. The ban will come into force on Nov. 1.
