Mobile ID World

A UK parliamentary committee says the government’s first attempt to sell a national digital ID plan damaged public confidence, putting new pressure on ministers to rebuild trust before the voluntary scheme moves ahead. The Home Affairs Committee criticized the original plan to make digital ID mandatory for right-to-work checks, while stopping short of calling for digital ID t...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, focusing on whether the eyewear collects or enables collection of facial geometry and other private data without adequate notice. The inquiry puts bystander privacy at the center of the smart-glasses debate, not just the privacy of the person wearing the device.

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Identity verification firm Regula and mobile security company V-Key have partnered to build document authentication, facial biometrics, and liveness detection directly into V-Key’s mobile digital identity platform. The integration, announced on May 20, is aimed at mobile onboarding and authentication for banking, telecom, government, and digital services across the Asia-Pacif...

Identity company CLEAR and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) have formed a strategic collaboration to deploy CLEAR’s CLEAR1 identity platform across United States federal health and civilian agencies. Announced on May 20, the agreement names GDIT as CLEAR’s preferred federal systems integrator for delivering the platform into government environments.

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IPification and Viettel Telecom are partnering to deploy network-based mobile authentication for Viettel subscribers in Vietnam, giving banks, fintechs, e-wallets, and other digital services a way to verify users without passwords or SMS one-time passcodes. Viettel is Vietnam’s largest mobile operator, giving the agreement a direct consumer-authentication angle for one of Sou...