EU Report Details €170.8 Million in Identity Interoperability Contracts
The European Commission has detailed €170.8 million in contracts for the EU’s identity interoperability program in a newly released implementation report,…
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EU Border Guards Lose the Power to Pause Biometric Checks at Busy Crossings
The provision that let European border authorities suspend fingerprint and facial capture when queues built up expires today, and border guards must now run…
Lakota Opens Pre-Orders for a FAP60 Fingerprint Scanner That Runs Natively on iPhone
Lakota Software Solutions has opened pre-orders for the Phantom F60, a FAP60 live-scan fingerprint scanner the company says is the first of its kind to work…
AI Update: Agents Used Exposed Credentials to Hack Hugging Face
AI Update September 4, 2026 Security and identity briefing Exposed credentials fueled attacks on AI infrastructure, Astra arrived with a Critical cyber rating,…
BASF Sues Apple Over Seven trinamiX Patents Behind Face ID Anti-Spoofing
The German chemical group BASF has sued Apple over Face ID, asserting seven patents held by its trinamiX sensing unit in the US District Court in Midland,…
Utah Agrees Not to Enforce Its VPN Age-Verification Law While Court Weighs Injunction
Utah will not enforce the first US law to write virtual private networks into an age-verification regime, after the state Department of Commerce and the owner…
World Releases Mobile-First Zero-Knowledge Toolkit Behind World ID
World Foundation has released ProveKit, an open-source zero-knowledge proving toolkit designed to generate privacy-preserving proofs locally on phones,…
ISO and Partners Make Core Mobile ID Standards Free to Read
ISO, the International Electrotechnical Commission, DIN and the OpenWallet Foundation have established a sponsored portal that gives users free read-only…
UK Audit Office Says Legacy Data Still Blocks Digital Identity After Scheme Cancelled
Britain’s National Audit Office has published a lessons-learned report on digital identity, finding that the obstacles to proving who you are across government…
OMB Finalises Login.gov Mandate With a Two-Year Deadline for Agencies
Federal agencies have two years to move their public-facing websites onto Login.gov under a finalised White House memo that makes the platform the…