Cheshire Police Complete First Live Facial Recognition Deployment
Cheshire Police completed its first live facial recognition deployment and plans a UK-first police operation using watchlist images from neighboring forces.
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Italy Ends Travel Validity of Paper Identity Cards
Italy’s paper identity cards will lose international travel validity on August 3, regardless of the expiration date printed on the document under a new rule.
Croatia Tenders €1.2 Million Eurodac Fingerprint Upgrade
Croatia opened a €1.2 million tender to upgrade and maintain fixed and portable fingerprint-capture workstations for the expanded Eurodac system in Croatia.
Xcelerate and Socure Win $163M Dollar Call Order for Login.gov Identity Proofing
Xcelerate Solutions and its subcontractor Socure will supply the next generation of remote identity proofing for Login.gov, the US government’s shared sign-in…
Entrust Opens Agentic AI Trust Accelerator for Identity and Authorization of AI Agents
Entrust has launched a co-development program aimed at giving enterprises the identity plumbing their AI agents currently lack, so that autonomous software can…
NEC and Ava Labs Propose Face-Verified Stablecoin Payments to Keep Biometrics Off-Chain
NEC has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs to explore on-chain services built around its biometric identity technology, starting with a jointly…
EU Child Safety Panel Rejects Biometric Age Checks in Favour of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
The expert panel advising the European Commission on child safety online has recommended an EU-wide floor keeping under-13s off social media, and it wants the…
BOYLE Sports Adopts Jumio Identity Checks as Ireland’s New Gambling Regime Bites
Irish bookmaker BOYLE Sports is embedding Jumio’s identity verification into player onboarding across the UK and Ireland, as operators adjust to the compliance…
Seiko Solutions and Trust Stamp Plan Facial Recognition Service Rollout in Japan
Seiko Solutions and the US biometrics firm Trust Stamp have begun a joint project to bring a facial recognition authentication service to Japan, aiming for a…
Mercosur Approves Mutual Recognition of Digital IDs Across South American Borders
Mercosur has approved an agreement on the mutual recognition of electronic identification and authentication, giving the digital identity systems of Argentina,…