Earlier this month, Prime Minister Brigadier (retired) Mark Phillips presented the Digital Identity Card Bill to the Guyana National Assembly in an endeavour to consolidate the biometric data of each citizen into one card.

In a growing trend of soft-launching Mobile Driving Licences (MDLs) prior to general public release, two US states are currently trialling their state identity documents with select groups of businesses.

This year, Identity Week Europe moved its base from its traditional home of the ExCel Centre in London to RAI in Amsterdam. In addition to over 200 exhibitors, 3,000 attendees and 71 start-ups from 93 countries there was a full programme of conference presentations.

One of the issues that was discussed at the recent Optical and Digital Document Security (ODDS) conference in Prague was the future of personal identity.

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic response, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognised that there is a gap and continued need for a health status passport.

The US Supreme Court has limited the reach of the federal Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, rebuffing the Biden administration’s efforts to prosecute a man already convicted of Medicaid fraud with a separate charge of aggravated identity theft arising out of the same fraud case.

Taiwan may have to pay substantial compensation to a contractor after the country’s digital ID plan was halted due to privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

From its earliest stages as a consultation on revisions to the eIDAS (Electronic Identification and Trust Services) regulations, ID & Secure Document News™ has followed the progress of the EU Digital Wallet.

There are a number of networks and research groups that exist outside of our community that could bring value to our work. The aim of this article is to illustrate this with reference to a personal case study undertaken over the past nine months.

Two British politicians have joined forces to promote the introduction of digital ID cards, which has been met with mixed reactions.