South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has demonstrated a smartphone-based digital identity that lets its holder decide which personal details to share when another party requests verification. Schreiber used […]

Malawi’s National Registration Bureau is preparing to launch the Nzika Digital ID Wallet on September 16, giving citizens a mobile version of key civil-registration credentials. The app will initially hold […]

Japan’s Digital Agency has launched the Myna App, absorbing the separate Digital Authentication App into the existing Mynaportal App so that identity checks and signing with the My Number Card […]

Mexico has reached the first deadline in its staged registration schedule for prepaid mobile lines, beginning the enforcement phase of a national program that links phone numbers with verified identity […]

Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is moving to add biometric identity verification to mobile operators’ apps as part of a wider effort to prevent SIM cards from being registered under […]

Network API provider Aduna, working with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, is rolling out a carrier network-based authentication service in the United States as an alternative to the SMS one-time passcodes […]

Vodafone Idea has begun enabling network-based silent mobile verification for its Vi subscribers across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, validating a user’s mobile number through the telecom network rather than a […]

Regula and V-Key have partnered to integrate document authentication, facial biometrics, and liveness detection into V-Key ID for mobile onboarding across APAC.

India has dropped a UIDAI proposal that would have required Apple, Samsung, and other OEMs to pre-install the Aadhaar app on smartphones sold domestically.

Mexico’s new rules link the biometric CURP to mandatory SIM registration, ending anonymous mobile numbers for 127 million cell lines by July 2026.