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Home Office contract for facial recognition tool to verify ages of asylum seekers
A contract has been awarded by the UK Home Office to implement AI facial recognition to support officers on the ground with verifying the ages of asylum seekers, where they can’t present documentation. The plans have sparked controversy amid tensions around the...
Reminder to public, private establishments to recognise Filipino digital senior citizens ID
For years, many Filipino senior citizens carried worn plastic cards in wallets and envelopes to claim medicine discounts, transportation privileges, and government benefits. Now, the Philippine government wants those privileges to fit inside a smartphone. A nationwide...
300+ speakers confirmed! Check out the organisations shaping the agenda…
With only 3 weeks to go, the countdown to Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam is officially on, and this year’s agenda is shaping up to be our most impactful yet. We are thrilled to announce that we have over 300 industry-leading organisations featuring on the...
UNHCR calls for inclusion of refugees, stateless persons in digital foundational ID systems
ID4Africa, a global platform for the convergence of government representatives, civil society, and identity experts, has highlighted the need to seek security and inclusion for refugees and stateless persons within national digital identity schemes. Whilst the WHO...
Estonia seeking stakeholder partner to build digital ID wallet
Estonia’s digital ID wallet is in the development phase to comply with the eIDAS agreement. The Information System Authority is preparing to procure a stakeholder partner to work on the build. The procurement will find a suitable digital wallet service provider to...
Government ‘Information gateway’ will share public-held data with digital verification services
A new “gateway” capability will enable private sector access to government data for identity verification. The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes announced the minor technical update, which could have easily gone under the radar, but ComputerWeekly reported...
The Glasswing paradox: Why AI’s greatest leap is the physical document’s greatest comeback
Guest article by Ondřej Fedorčák Director of Optaglio a.s. | Board Member of International Optical Technologies Association (IOTA, formerly IHMA) For years, the narrative of "progress" in identity management has been singular: the future is digital. We’ve been told...
Semperis: Operational resilience in Active Directory and Entra ID
https://youtu.be/8HF4QmcAaqc As a cybersecurity resilience leader, Semperis knows that Active Directory and Entra ID are not 100% secure from escalating ransomware threats and malicious changes. With movement to the Cloud, lots of companies demanded to keep...
Join Annet Steenbergen and industry experts at Identity Week Europe!
Annet Steenbergen, advisor for the WEBUILD Consortium, will be speaking at Identity Week Europe 2026 on 9-10 June in Amsterdam where she'll be chairing the event and diving into topics including the latest in seamless travel, European border management, identity...
Wicket and Axess roll out next-gen biometric access system at LAFC’s BMO Stadium
A new benchmark in stadium access technology has been set as Wicket and Axess deploy a fully integrated biometric entry system at BMO Stadium, home of Los Angeles Football Club. The system combines facial authentication with advanced turnstile hardware, enabling fans...
Greece bans social media under 15, UK campaigners debate lower age to be raised in House of Lords
MPs in the UK are being urged to listen to campaigners to raise the age for social media accounts to 16. Described as a public health emergency to protect our children, Greece has listened to the urgent appeals, officially banning social media access for under-15s. To...
New industry resource announced by DSA: Best practice guidelines for ID documents
A document is only as secure as its weakest process. In the age of digital IDs, new security standards for ID documents still matter, which the Document Security Alliance, INTERGRAF, and the Secure Identity Alliance have collaborated on to issue modern best practice...
Support for extending voluntary rules
MEPs have voted in favour of extending an exemption to privacy legislation, allowing companies to voluntarily detect and report child sexual abuse material on their platforms. The ePrivacy Directive is due to expire on 3 April; however, MEPs say the voluntary measures...
Unauthorised access reported in Ministry of Finance systems
Hackers have targeted “primary processes” at the Dutch Ministry of Finance, creating uncertainty over how much employee personal data may have been compromised. The affected systems support a number of ministry functions. Since the unauthorised access was detected, an...
Our Start-Up Pitching Competition is now open!
Applications are now open for our 2026 Start-Up Pitching Competition at Identity Week Europe, taking place mid-summer in Amsterdam. You could follow in the footsteps of previous winners such as Charisma Check and Andromeda Security, who impressed the ecosystem and our...
Why a new identity category won’t save you
Guest Post by Abhay Kulkarni, Widefield.ai Here's a scenario that will be familiar to any CISO who has sat through a vendor briefing in the last three years: a salesperson opens with a slide full of overlapping acronyms: ITDR, ISPM, PAM, NHI, IVIP. Each represents a...
Belgium travel congestion delays EES entry
The minister of the interior in Belgium has postponed their compliance with EES rules to collect biometrics, as test runs of biometric registration proved to extend travel queues. The Entry/Exit System has gradually been implemented since October, with a strict...
How ICMPD is supporting Ukraine’s border resilience during crisis
https://youtu.be/14fXNq71Mhs The International Centre for Migration Policy Development, which supports government migration management policies, has been a critical agency on Ukraine's side in the context of war. We invited ICMPD's Senior Project Manager, Vyacheslav...
Kantara Initiative to collaborate with the OIDF on the role of Authorised Auditor
Independent oversight strengthens the OpenID Foundation's conformance testing program. The OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce that the Kantara Initiative - a global community focused on improving the trustworthy use of identity and personal data - has signed a...
Ditto launches to orchestrate next generation identity with cryptographic certainty
Building on a heritage of privacy-first innovation, Ditto’s trust layer gives businesses high-assurance identity confidence and bridges the gap between centralised and decentralised framework Ditto, the privacy-first digital identity platform trusted to secure every...
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