2025-08-31
Ian Fleming
Gartner names Daon a Leader in identity verification, citing its advanced biometric tech and AI defences against rising deepfake fraud threats worldwide.
This marks the second consecutive year that Incode has been positioned as a Leader, following the launch of the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Identity Verification in 2024.
Ping Proxies is a well-known leader in its ethical proxy network industry, that serves over 35 million residential IPs and a robust ISP proxy lineup in more than 15 countries.
2025-09-02
Ian Fleming
The Identification (Protection of Physical Identification Methods) Bill mandates that organisations accept passports, driver licences, 18+ cards, school IDs, and other prescribed physical documents whenever proof of age or identity is required.
With the UK having recently brought the Online Safety Act into force, age verification laws are having a huge effect on traffic to web sites. Evaluation in the UK found “suppresses traffic to compliant platforms while driving users to sites without age verification”.
Developers in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand face new verification rules from September 2026. A global rollout of the policy is planned from 2027 onward.
2025-09-01
Per Henrikson
An Australian government-commissioned report said selfie-based age-guessing software could enforce a teen social media ban, but noted that some groups experienced “unacceptable” levels of inaccuracy, raising concerns about the December rollout.
A new dataset and detector, named HydraFake and Veritas, significantly improve deepfake detection by realistically simulating real-world challenges and employing a reasoning process that mimics human forensic analysis, outperforming existing methods on unseen forgery techniques and data
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has officially begun developing an international standard for digital identity wallets to lead the way in the digital ID era. Digital identity wallets are the next generation of authentication technology.
2025-08-30
Ian Fleming
Mastodon, a decentralized social network, has declared it cannot comply with new US state age verification laws due to its federated structure and limited resources.
The initiative, part of the ongoing consultation under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act), seeks to evaluate new tools to combat illicit finance in digital asset markets.
