Australia’s 2026-27 Federal Budget commits $654.3 million over four years to expand the national Digital ID system, with the government presenting the investment as part of a broader effort to make ...

France Identité has made its sandbox build available on iOS, giving iPhone users and relying parties a way to test the same mobile identity flows already available in the Android sandbox. Both ...

South Africa has opened public consultation on draft regulations that would create a legal framework for a smartphone-based Digital Identity system. The Department of Home Affairs published the ...

Jordan’s Sanad mobile identity app now has full legal equivalence to the physical national ID card after amendments to the Civil Status Law of 2026 were published in the Official Gazette. The change ...

Microsoft has expanded its passkey infrastructure across smartphone-based sign-in, enterprise identity, and account recovery, deepening the role of phone-resident credentials in both consumer and ...

OpenAI has launched an Advanced Account Security program that lets ChatGPT users protect their accounts with smartphone passkeys and hardware security keys, replacing password-and-OTP sign-in with ...

The European Commission has adopted a recommendation calling on EU Member States to deploy a privacy-preserving age verification app on smartphones by the end of 2026, marking a significant step ...

Synthetic identity fraud now accounts for 11 percent of all fraud globally, an eightfold increase from 2024, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ annual cybercrime report analyzing more than 116 ...

Identity verification provider Hopae has released a free eIDAS 2.0 readiness assessment tool designed to help financial institutions prepare for mobile wallet-based identity verification under the ...

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A bipartisan Senate bill would criminalize the use of AI-generated deepfakes for financial fraud and identity impersonation, with provisions that address the growing threat of voice cloning and ...

Galaxy device owners can add a California driver’s license or state ID to Samsung Wallet by tapping the Add button in the app’s Quick Access tab and selecting Digital IDs. An on-device identity ...