Caveats: Including a country doesn't mean that all its citizens have a biometric identity document: it only means that citizens have the possibility to acquire a biometric identity document (e.g., biometric passport)Countries that have just started to issue biometric identity…
More countries are issuing biometric IDs: Iceland: new biometric IDs implementing EU Regulation 2019/1157 from December 1, 2023Liechtenstein: updated IDs also implementing EU Regulation 2019/1157 from January 3, 2024
This month the Spanish and UK patents have been validated, further extending the coverage of the European Unitary Patent.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published a Targeted Update on Implementation of FATF Standards on Virtual Assets and Virtual Assets Service Providers. The most highlighted issue is the low degree of compliance among the public and private sector regarding…
Today June 7, 2023 we are blessed to celebrate that The Secure Spreadsheet has been granted one of the first European Unitary Patents, EP3218800B1, as published on today’s European Patent Bulletin.
A new set of countries are upgrading their identity documents: "Port of Spain commitment on digital integration": 11 Caribbean countries have agreed to update their digital identities and make them interoperable (i.e., this agreement will lead them to upgrade their…
Although China successfully banned crypto-currency mining in order to cut their high-energy consumption, Bitcoin’s electricity consumption is still more than eight times higher than Google’s and Facebook’s combined, with an additional growth of 41% Year-on-Year. For that reason, more States…
The latest countries to update their identity documents to support biometric authentication: Sierra Leona: their identity cards are now being issued supporting biometric authentication, following ECOWAS regulations.Mali: new biometric identity cards.Guyana: new biometric identity cards for the issuance of work…
On February 9, the Industry, Research and Energy committee approved amendments to the European Digital Identity framework 2014/910 including zero-knowledge proofs of digital identities: to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time zero-knowledge proofs are been included…
A third of the countries in the world lack any kind of identity documents with biometric identification (i.e., biometric passports OR biometric identity cards): as of 2023 this proportion may seen to be very high, but they only comprise 6.7%…