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Digital systems and credentials used to verify a person's identity online, applied to tasks like age checks, government service access, and authentication.
FinCEN and federal bank regulators said on 8 September that qualifying mobile driver's licences can meet customer identification rules. No bank has to accept them, so the work shifts to wiring the credentials into onboarding systems.
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Singapore's GovTech is piloting FirstDate, a free app that gives public officers aged 21 to 35 one match at a time, as the fertility rate sits at 0.87. The state's other response targets the cost of raising children, through family and childcare support widened in August.
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President Trump's executive order requires online federal services with more than 100,000 users a year to integrate with the America.gov chatbot. It asks for that "as soon as possible", so the only dates on the table are the targets announced at Tuesday's launch.
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Three attacks on one shared dependency since June, none attributed. Digdir keeps restoring service, and the attackers keep returning to the single queue everything else waits in.
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Identity Digital has moved its agent identity work into a separate company called Known Systems AI. The pitch is a persistent credential that says which firm answers for an agent wherever it goes.
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The Paris firm closed a EUR 175m sixth fund in September 2025 with half of it earmarked for AI, and general partner Claire Houry is spending that half on document management, AI Act compliance and digital identity.
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The UAE's telecom and digital government regulator is putting the UAEPASS Digital Vault on a dedicated Avalanche L1, a platform Avalanche counts at about 12.5 million users, 15,000 services and 350 institutions.
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The abstract states the supersession in one sentence. The requirement text sits in three companion volumes, and the base document spends its introduction asking organizations to tailor controls to their own risk.
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Two papers published on November 7 set out what a verifier should be told about an mDL's provenance, assurance and status. Who publishes the issuer keys behind that signature check is the part still missing.
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Eleven states plus Puerto Rico can now put a driver's licence in Google Wallet, while Google still tells holders to carry the plastic card. That leaves identity teams to decide what happens when a customer offers only the phone.
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France's under-15 ban starts on 1 September with the clause naming a regulator removed, and New Zealand's 16-plus bill carries a 10 percent global revenue penalty it cannot pass. Product teams get both.
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