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Swedish Appeals Court Blocks Tax Agency Demands for Customers’ BankID Location and IP Data
The Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm has ruled that SEB and Handelsbanken are not legally required to turn over customer GPS coordinates, IP addresses, and third-party login histories to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), overturning two July 2025 lower court decisions and annulling the agency’s BankID data orders. Interpreting Sweden’s Tax Procedure Act cautiously, the appellate court found that while issuing and validating a BankID credential constitutes a transaction involving the issuing bank, a user’s physical location and external counterparty during authentication fall outside the statutory scope of bank-held transaction records, awarding each bank 500,000 kronor toward legal expenses.
VA Adds CLEAR Face Sign-In and Passkeys to Redesigned VA.gov
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a major redesign of VA.gov that introduces CLEAR biometric facial sign-in and passkey authentication alongside existing Login.gov and ID.me options. Informed by nearly 90,000 user survey responses, the overhaul allows veterans to enroll online or in person at select VA medical centers for passwordless access, extends trusted device sessions across claims and health chat portals, and deploys a streamlined QuickSubmit document upload tool that reduces form completion from 11 steps down to three.
Poland’s ePUAP Platform Remains Offline After Cyberattack, With Trusted Profile Downtime Planned
Poland’s primary e-government portal, ePUAP, remains offline to citizens and public offices following a November 10 cyberattack, with the government’s gov.pl portal warning of scheduled weekend maintenance for Trusted Profile and national electronic signature nodes from November 14 to 15. While Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski confirmed that teams halted the intrusion and kept the Central Information Technology Center (COI) infrastructure uncompromised, the precautionary shutdown has temporarily disrupted electronic administrative mailboxes nationwide while security verification checks proceed.
ROC Turns a Profit as Intellicheck and BIO-key Report Third-Quarter Results
Three publicly traded identity technology providers reported third-quarter financial results this week, highlighted by facial recognition developer ROC achieving profitability on record revenue of $8.0 million and securing an eight-year U.S. Department of Justice contract worth up to $64.3 million. Meanwhile, identity validation firm Intellicheck posted its fifth consecutive profitable quarter with $0.5 million in net income on $5.7 million in revenue as it expanded into wealth management, and authentication vendor BIO-key narrowed its net loss to $886,000 after growing software license fees by 39 percent and adding three new Middle Eastern government clients.
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg Picks Fourthline for Digital Onboarding Checks
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) has selected Amsterdam-based identity verification provider Fourthline as its digital client onboarding and compliance partner, marking Fourthline’s first commercial deployment in the Grand Duchy. Integrating into BIL’s Temenos core banking infrastructure via a single API, Fourthline will deliver biometric analysis, identity document verification, and proprietary anti-money laundering models across the bank’s domestic and international operations as part of BIL’s broader Building Tomorrow Together 2030 strategic transformation.
Feedzai Expands Digital Trust to Help Banks Detect AI Agents in Customer Sessions
Financial crime prevention firm Feedzai has upgraded its Digital Trust platform with cryptographic device binding and behavioral analytics designed to detect AI agents accessing customer bank accounts. Combining declared agent signals with endpoint telemetry and network intelligence, the updated engine enables financial institutions to distinguish authorized personal assistants from malicious bots, establish persistent trust relationships without excessive login friction, and protect passkeys against bypass attacks while cutting unnecessary SMS one-time passcodes by 41 percent.
Santa Catarina Switches On 211 Face Recognition Cameras Across 20 Brazilian Cities
The public security secretariat of southern Brazil’s Santa Catarina state (SSP-SC) has activated the first 211 edge-processing facial recognition cameras across 20 municipalities as part of its Integrated Intelligent Video Monitoring System (SIVI). Supported by a modular data center and an initial investment of 5.17 million reais, the real-time computer vision network identifies missing persons and individuals with active arrest warrants, serving as the initial rollout of a 42.5 million reais statewide program slated to deploy 1,000 cameras covering over 70 percent of Santa Catarina’s population.
TOPPAN Security Passes Fime’s Photo ID Data Model Tests on iOS and Android
TOPPAN Security has become the first vendor to pass independent testing by laboratory Fime for its iOS and Android Photo ID mobile credential implementations under Annex C of the ISO/IEC TS 23220-4:2026 specification. Built on the TOPPAN Verifiable Credential Mobile SDK—which powers live national identity deployments in Argentina and the Philippines as well as European Digital Identity Wallet pilots under the Aptitude consortium—the verified goID sample applications demonstrate cross-platform interoperability for passport-derived mobile identity credentials alongside mobile driving licenses.
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team