Latin America
Google has pledged $5 million to support Latin American governments adopting digital public infrastructure, including digital IDs and payment systems.
The funding will go through Co-Develop and forms part of wider cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank. Google highlighted IdLAC, a regional digital identity broker that enables citizens to use their national digital ID to access public services in other Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The system is part of the Mercosur Digital Citizen initiative and is designed to support interoperable identity exchange without each country needing to build bespoke infrastructure from scratch.
Global
World, the digital identity project backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, has updated its World ID system and positioned it as a broader proof-of-personhood infrastructure.
The new World ID architecture introduces an account-based identity model, support for multiple keys and account recovery. The company says the update is intended to address growing concerns around bots, deepfakes and AI agents that can impersonate humans online.
World is also launching a beta version of the World ID app, allowing users to manage digital IDs and authenticate across platforms.
Philippines
The Philippines is integrating the national PhilSys digital ID system into healthcare delivery through a memorandum of understanding between PhilHealth and the Philippine Statistics Authority.
PhilSys will be used within the PhilHealth Check Utility to verify healthcare recipients in real time, including through biometric checks. Officials say the integration will help prevent fraudulent claims, reduce duplicate records and ensure legitimate beneficiaries receive services.
The move is positioned as a milestone in the country’s wider digital governance and service delivery programme.
United Kingdom
Credas Technologies has partnered with Finity to embed digital identity and right-to-work verification into payroll workflows for UK bureaus, recruitment agencies and umbrella companies.
The integration brings Credas’ DIATF-certified verification technology directly into Finity’s platform, allowing workers to complete checks through the Credas app and feeding results back into Finity in real time. The companies say the system will save approximately five hours of administrative time for every 100 workers onboarded while reducing compliance risk and manual data entry.
United States
1Kosmos has achieved Department of War Impact Level 4 authorisation for its digital identity platform, extending its FedRAMP High approval to support mission-critical defence workloads.
The authorisation allows the platform to be used in environments handling Controlled Unclassified Information and other sensitive mission data. 1Kosmos says its platform combines identity proofing, a digital wallet and passwordless authentication to bind access to a verified individual rather than relying on traditional credentials alone.
The company says the certification will support secure access for military personnel, contractors and mission partners across distributed and high-risk environments.
Europe
Signicat has launched its eID and Wallet Hub to help European businesses manage overlapping digital identity requirements under eIDAS 2.0 and the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation.
The hub provides a single connection point for established national eIDs, the forthcoming EU Digital Identity Wallet and other verification methods such as biometrics. Signicat says the product is intended to reduce the burden of building multiple integrations during a period when businesses will need to support both existing national identity systems and emerging EUDI Wallets.
The platform already processes more than 500 million transactions per year.
Global
Prove has launched the Prove Identity Platform, a unified identity system intended to turn verification into a persistent foundation of trust across people, businesses and AI agents.
The company says identity can no longer be treated as a one-time onboarding event, particularly as AI agents begin initiating transactions on behalf of users. The platform brings together key management, identity monitoring and fraud policy capabilities to support authentication, alerts on lifecycle changes and network-based fraud defence.
Prove says the platform is built on more than a decade of identity history and is designed to help organisations verify not just who a user is, but whether they authorised a specific action.
France
France’s National Agency for Secure Documents has confirmed a security incident affecting its online portal, which handles services including passports, ID cards, driving licences and vehicle registrations.
Officials say the incident may have exposed personal data linked to user accounts, including names, email addresses, dates of birth, postal addresses and phone numbers, but not supporting documents submitted during procedures. The government has not confirmed claims by an online criminal actor that 18 to 19 million records were taken.
The incident has raised fresh concerns about the security of national identity and administrative service portals.
United Kingdom
London’s Metropolitan Police has survived a High Court legal challenge over its use of live facial recognition technology.
The case was brought by Big Brother Watch on behalf of an anti-knife crime campaigner who had been falsely identified by live facial recognition cameras in Croydon. The court found that the Met’s use of the technology did not breach relevant rights under the European Convention on Human Rights and that the force’s policy was lawful.
The Met described the judgment as an important victory for public safety, while campaigners continue to raise concerns about privacy and misidentification.
Greece
Greece is taking a flexible approach to the EU’s biometric Entry/Exit System after some British travellers missed flights following full implementation of the scheme.
Greek authorities indicated that they would not collect biometric data from UK travellers as part of EES in some circumstances, while still applying border-management measures under the regulations. The system, which requires biometric capture for non-EU travellers, became compulsory on 10 April after a phased rollout across member states.
The move highlights practical pressures around EES implementation as border authorities balance compliance with passenger flow.
