Legal

India issues new SIM card rules for 2026: Biometric verification required for new connections and KYC changes

2026-08-23 Ian Fleming

New Jersey Enacts Children's Online Safety Package, Including New Design Code Requirements

2026-08-23 Ian Fleming

Peru gives digital ID equal legal status to physical credential

2026-08-20 Per Henrikson

New Jersey’s Kids Code Rejects Age Checks. It Puts the Burden on Platforms Instead

2026-08-18 Ian Fleming

New Jersey’s Kids Code bans targeted ads to minors, raises privacy defaults, and avoids the age-verification fights facing other internet laws.

New York Attorney General Releases Final Rules for SAFE for Kids Act

2026-08-18 Ian Fleming

The Rules establish requirements for how social media companies must restrict addictive features on their platforms for users under the age of 18. The SAFE Act goes into effect on January 25, 2027, giving covered platforms approximately six months to develop and implement compliance programs.

French court blocks Macron’s social media ban for under-15s

2026-08-14 Per Henrikson

Constitutional council says curbs infringe freedom of expression and privacy as president vows to rework legislation

UK gambling Commission warn identity checks undermined FRA pilot

2026-08-13 Ian Fleming

The UK Gambling Commission has warned online gambling operators that incomplete registration data and overly permissive identity matching are creating verification problems for customers.

FinCEN Kills Domestic Beneficial Ownership Reporting, Shifting Entity-Resolution Burden Onto Banks and Private Vendors

2026-08-12 Per Henrikson

The U.S. Treasury announced on August 11 that FinCEN is permanently exempting U.S. companies and U.S. persons from beneficial ownership reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act and will delete previously reported information, while foreign reporting companies remain subject to narrower requirements involving foreign beneficial owners.

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

2026-08-08 Ian Fleming

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

2026-07-29 Per Henrikson

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

2026-07-28 Ian Fleming

The EUDI Wallet Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) v3.0.0 introduces a new framework for assessing the functional requirements of wallets via a set of shared, reusable test cases. It also builds in the latest capabilities and criteria needed for alignment with the Commission Implementing Regulations (CIRs) passed in 2024 and 2025.