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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:

Evrotrust And Trustfull Connect Identity Verification With Digital Risk Screening

Evrotrust has partnered with fraud intelligence provider Trustfull to embed digital risk screening directly into European customer onboarding and authentication workflows. The technical collaboration links Evrotrust’s qualified trust and electronic signature infrastructure with Trustfull’s telemetry, which evaluates phone numbers, email addresses, proxy connections, and disposable identifiers before businesses initiate formal know-your-customer document checks. Targeting cross-border banking, lending, and telecommunications operations under the EU’s eIDAS framework, the joint offering enables continuous fraud scoring before, during, and after onboarding, complementing Evrotrust’s one-time certificate issuance workflows and supporting its broader European expansion following a €6.6 million funding round backed by 3TS Capital Partners.

Epic Adds Yoti And Veriff Age Checks For Australian R18+ Games

Epic Games will mandate that Australian consumers confirm they are at least 18 years old before buying or downloading mature titles on the Epic Games Store, integrating Australian R18+ game age verification through Yoti, Stripe, and Veriff starting September 9. Orchestrated through Epic’s Kids Web Services engine, the framework lets users verify through Yoti’s selfie-based facial age estimation, a five-cent credit card authorization via Stripe, or government identity document validation by Veriff, with all captured biometrics and document photographs encrypted and deleted immediately post-check. Epic also plans to introduce bank-backed verification later in September via the Australian Payments Plus ConnectID exchange, utilizing an architecture already adopted by Persona to let customers authenticate through CommBank, NAB, ANZ Plus, or Westpac apps without sharing full dates of birth or raw financial credentials.

Essex Police Reports 200 Arrests Linked To Live Facial Recognition

Essex Police has confirmed that its deployment of live facial recognition technology has resulted in 200 arrests from live facial recognition across the county, including 26 apprehensions logged in August alone. Utilizing Corsight matching algorithms evaluated by the National Physical Laboratory, the system cross-references public crowds against pre-configured watchlists covering violent offenders, wanted suspects, and individuals subject to court orders, while immediately deleting non-matching facial images within a fraction of a second. According to Detective Superintendent Stephen Jennings, zero arrests have stemmed from false-positive matches across hundreds of thousands of scans, with the operational milestone arriving as five UK police forces adopt 107 governance recommendations issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office covering training, image retention, and biometric oversight.

Zambia Launches National Public Key Infrastructure For Digital Transactions

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority has deployed the country’s national public key infrastructure to operate as the National Root Certification Authority, establishing a foundational trust anchor for electronic signatures and secure public-sector transactions. Backed by the legal framework of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, the cryptographic hierarchy is designed to eliminate paper-based verification across commercial banks, government ministries, and telecom networks. The launch coordinates with Smart Zambia Institute’s parallel procurement of a MOSIP-based digital identity platform and the modernization of the eSignet authentication component alongside WSO2, with national coordinator Percy Chinyama advising public agencies to allocate internal funding and technical staff to avoid long-term external vendor lock-in.

Flownamix Brings YEO Continuous Facial Authentication To South Africa

Flownamix Group has entered an agreement with African license holder ExSo to distribute YEO Messaging’s continuous facial authentication technology to South African financial services, fintech, and insurance firms. Delivered locally through Datanamix, SigniFlow, and SMSFlow, the platform bundles device-level facial mapping, depth sensing, and liveness verification to continuously confirm an authorized user remains present throughout a digital session without transmitting or storing biometric templates on external servers. The deployment pairs ongoing post-login identity assurance with end-to-end encrypted messaging through the YEO Messaging SDK, mirroring a wider regulatory trend toward multi-stage transaction verification seen in emerging digital authentication frameworks worldwide.

Liberia Details $54.7 Million Digital ID Concession Awaiting Ratification

The government of Liberia has signed a $54.7 million build-operate-transfer concession with Austria’s OeSD International GmbH to construct and manage a national biometric digital identity concession subject to official legislative ratification. Administered by the National Identification Registry while maintaining state ownership over citizen records, the national program encompasses biometric deduplication, data migration, civil registration integration, and the issuance of physical and digital credentials across centralized, county-level, and mobile enrollment centers. The negotiated agreement follows an August procurement milestone after the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission rejected an earlier 2025 restricted-bidding attempt, with the contract placing all upfront capital investment on OeSD alongside structured capacity-building provisions to transition system operations to Liberian institutions over time.

Macron Urges EU Under-15 Social Media Ban After French Court Ruling

French President Emmanuel Macron has formally petitioned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to implement an EU under-15 social media ban following a domestic legal setback from France’s Constitutional Council. In an August 29 letter, Macron urged Brussels to establish binding European age limits after the high court struck down France’s domestic statute on August 14 for imposing disproportionate limits on freedom of expression and providing insufficient privacy safeguards around required age-verification methods. While the French government drafts revised national legislation for review this autumn, the executive appeal urges coordinated EU-wide action using facial recognition or digital credential verification, building upon recommendations from France’s Screens Commission and von der Leyen’s ongoing initiatives targeting minor safety across online platforms.

EU Report Details €170.8 Million In Identity Interoperability Contracts

The European Commission’s sixth annual implementation report has revealed that eu-LISA signed €170.8 million in identity interoperability contracts through December 1, 2025, with actual payments to contractors reaching €133.2 million. The investment establishes four centralized components—the European Search Portal, the shared Biometric Matching Service built by IDEMIA Public Security and Sopra Steria, the Common Identity Repository, and the Multiple-Identity Detector—to interlink databases including the Entry/Exit System, ETIAS, Eurodac, and the Schengen Information System. The Commission confirmed that the Central Repository for Reporting and Statistics is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2026, supported by an updated practical interoperability handbook and open-source face image quality assessment tools compliant with ISO/IEC 29794-5:2025.

IDnow Survey Finds Fraud Protection Leads EUDI Wallet Adoption Priorities

Consumer research conducted by Sapio Research for IDnow reveals that 40 percent of French and German adults view fraud prevention as the primary incentive for adopting a European Digital Identity Wallet, outranking transparency, control, and transaction speed. Surveying 2,000 adults, the study found that 63 percent are more likely to embrace the credential if it incorporates selective disclosure to prove single attributes without exposing complete profile details, while 47 percent stated they would tolerate longer verification workflows for stronger security. The findings coincide with IDnow’s expansion of its Trust Platform and its recent submission of qualified electronic attestation conformity assessments in Sweden, illustrating growing consumer demand for privacy-preserving attribute validation over full document presentation during remote onboarding.

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By the ID Tech Editorial Team