The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced this week that expiration dates for driver licenses, identification cards, and learner's permits, will be extended for Pennsylvania residents in response to statewide COVID-19 mitigation efforts.

Belgian mobile eID service Itsme has reached 2 million users as it marks its third year in operation.

Beyond Identity today announced the formation of an all-star technical advisory board comprising the “Father of SSL,” the co-inventor of public-key cryptography (PKC), and CISOs from two of America’s most successful companies, Koch Industries and Aflac.

A webinar to be hosted by the Festival of Identity will cover the upcoming European Entry-Exit system.

To combat a growing threat that’s expected to drive $48 billion in annual online payment fraud losses by 2023,1 Experian has announced the launch of Sure Profile. 

In an upcoming webinar in the Festival of Identity, a representative of Augmented Identity firm Idemia will explore the global shift to a more digitalised society.

Trust Stamp, a global provider of AI-powered identity services, raised over $1mm towards its Series A round of funding within the first 36 hours of accepting investments from the general public. 

The 2020 Identity Fraud Report, released by Javelin Strategy & Research, reveals financial institutions’ methods to identify and respond to fraud are no match for criminals’ high-tech schemes to hijack consumer accounts.

Acuant, a leading global provider of identity verification solutions, today announced it has launched a set of easy to use tools and APIs to help government agencies and employers initiate a safe return to public life. 

IDEMIA, global augmented identity solutions provider, has appointed Henry Mkuzi as its East African Region Sales Director as part of the company’s plans to strengthen its local presence.

An upcoming webinar as part of the ground-breaking Festival of Identity series will see a biometric expert cover the field of contactless authentication in "Connecting with Each Other in a Post COVID-19 Touchless World".

The critical emerging area of using innovation in digital identity system enrolment will be covered in a Festival of Identity webinar on May 19.

CyberArk, a leader in privileged access management, today announced it has acquired Santa Clara, California-based IDaptive Holdings  (Idaptive). Together, CyberArk and Idaptive will deliver the industry’s only modern identity platform with a security-first approach.

Signicat now offers identity verification and authentication services with integrated support for the new German digital identity card, Neue Personalausweis (nPA)

An expert’s guide to using the paper elements of a passport.

Empowering e-government by shifting to smart cards is accelerating the arrival of a new era of mobile identity and electronic documents.

In this white paper, Hewlett Packard details an enterprise approach to mobile eID based on hardware tokens in microSD cards.

Citizen ID documents such as national IDs and driver licenses will ultimately follow the trend toward mobility.

To enable public administrations, companies and citizens to freely interact while retaining their formal relationships of liability, there needs to be a progressive development in the use of "digital trust" services.