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The world is shipping digital identity: what 51 countries reveal
We catalogued 86 national digital ID schemes across 51 countries. The patterns that emerge, mobile-first, bank-led, biometric, and wallet-bound, tell you where identity is going and what to build for.
- Analysis · Jun 24, 2026Biometric authentication just became a regulatory frontier
Biometrics are now in nearly every national ID and a growing share of logins, and the law has caught up. BIPA, the EU AI Act, and a wave of US state rules treat biometric identifiers as a special category. Here is what changed and what to do.
- Analysis · Jun 23, 2026How to vet a national digital ID before you build KYC on it
Not every national ID is equally trustworthy or equally easy to verify. A practical seven-point checklist for evaluating a country's digital ID before you wire it into onboarding, with the references to do it fast.
- Analysis · Jun 12, 2026Identiverse 2026 recap: agentic identity grows up, and passkeys get real
Our takeaways from Identiverse 2026 in Las Vegas: AI agent identity moved from theory to roadmap, passkeys turned operational, deepfakes pressured identity verification, and session security took center stage.
- Editorial · Jun 5, 2026Why We're Building a Daily Identity Blog (And What You'll Get From It)
The identity industry moves faster than any single team can track. This blog is our attempt to keep practitioners current with quality, vendor-neutral writing, published daily.
- Analysis · Jun 4, 2026Agentic AI Identity Is the Next Frontier (And Your IAM Stack Isn't Ready)
AI agents now act on behalf of users, call APIs, and chain tools together. They need identities, scopes, and audit trails, and almost no existing IAM stack was designed for them.