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Welcome to ID Tech’s digest of identity industry news. Here’s what you need to know about the world of digital identity and biometrics today:

Infosys Reported as Front-Runner for Sri Lanka’s e-NIC Digital Identity Tender

Infosys has emerged as the leading contender to secure the contract for Sri Lanka’s national electronic National Identity Card (e-NIC) infrastructure modernization initiative. The expansive public sector technology project involves designing, deploying, and maintaining a centralized biometric database to streamline citizen identity verification across municipal networks. By establishing a unified digital identity layer, the Sri Lankan government aims to eliminate legacy paperwork administrative backlogs, reduce national identity duplication errors, and secure public utility distribution platforms.

Pakistan Requires Biometric Sponsor Verification for Russian Visa Applicants

The Government of Pakistan has instituted an updated security policy, mandating strict biometric sponsor verification for citizens applying for Russian travel and business visas. Under the new consular regulatory directives, local individuals or corporate entities sponsoring a cross-border visa application must physically verify their identity using fingerprint scanning endpoints at authorized registry centers. The integrated biometric matching step is engineered to validate invitation documentation authenticity, intercept unauthorized travel rings, and establish an unalterable security audit trail.

DHS Document Outlines Plan to Put Facial Recognition in Local Police Hands

A newly disclosed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy document has revealed federal strategic plans to expand facial recognition capabilities directly to municipal and state law enforcement agencies. The administrative outline details funding, training, and technical deployment workflows designed to route federally managed biometric matching technology down to local patrol officers. While federal administrators position the initiative as a critical step to accelerate regional threat tracking, civil liberties advocates raise concerns over data governance boundaries and algorithmic bias checks.

WTTC Puts Biometrics and Digital Standards Atop Its Travel Growth Priorities

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has published its latest strategic growth roadmap, placing interoperable biometrics and digital identity standards at the core of international travel infrastructure expansion. The global industry coalition is urging international aviation authorities and border control networks to immediately standardize biometric eGates and touchless passenger processing systems. The council’s advisory framework argues that unifying global digital credentials and facial recognition standards is essential to handling projected passenger volume increases while minimizing airport terminal gridlocks.

OpenID Foundation Reports Strong mDL Interoperability Results at La Ciotat Event

The OpenID Foundation has published a technical summary detailing successful mobile driver’s license (mDL) interoperability testing outcomes from its recent global plugfest event in La Ciotat, France. The cross-industry compliance trials brought together digital wallet developers, hardware vendors, and security engineers to validate OpenID Connect (OIDC) for Verifiable Credentials against different operating platforms. The resulting performance data confirmed high compliance rates, ensuring seamless cross-vendor credential exchange as regional authorities prepare for large-scale digital wallet rollouts.

Canada’s Bill C-34 Would Set a Minimum Social Media Age of 16 with Age Assurance

Canadian lawmakers have advanced a new legislative draft, Bill C-34, which proposes to establish a strict minimum social media age of 16 across all user-to-user digital platforms. The federal legislation would require consumer social applications, streaming media services, and entertainment networks to deploy mandatory, high-assurance age verification mechanisms to block platform access for minors. The regulatory push mirrors mounting international statutory initiatives focused on protecting youth online safety by replacing easily bypassed self-declaration inputs with auditable age-assurance technology.

Fime Becomes First Quebec-Based DIACC-Accrusted Auditor for Canada’s Trust Framework

Compliance and validation specialist Fime has achieved a critical regional milestone, becoming the first Quebec-based independent auditor accredited by the Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). The technical authorization enables Fime’s security labs to officially audit and certify commercial digital identity solutions against the strict privacy and interoperability mandates of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF). The local evaluation presence will help Canadian technology vendors accelerate their deployment pipelines into highly regulated public and banking ecosystems.

Vercel Puts Internal Apps and AI Agents Behind the Corporate Identity Provider

Cloud development platform Vercel has overhauled its enterprise security topology, placing all internal company software applications and autonomous AI agents behind its corporate identity provider (IdP). The zero-trust infrastructure update ensures that every backend data exchange, code deployment, and automated workflow request requires continuous, centralized authentication. By tying automated software entities and machine-to-machine integrations to the core identity registry, the security team blocks lateral network movement and protects corporate repositories from unauthorized API access.

Token Puts a Biometric Approval Gate in Front of Enterprise AI Agents

Authentication developer Token has introduced a specialized security framework designed to place a biometric approval gate in front of autonomous enterprise AI agents executing high-risk corporate functions. Leveraging the company’s fingerprint-activated, phishing-resistant wearable solutions, the authorization system requires a physical biometric verification step before an automated software agent can finalize major monetary transfers, alter sensitive network access policies, or access restricted company datasets, closing a critical security loophole in automated enterprise workflows.

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By the ID Tech Editorial Team