The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires that colleges and universities have processes in place to ensure that the student registered for a credit-bearing online course is the same student who ...

Every day, consumers and companies generate, share and interact with data, with financial transactions, remote work, socialization and more taking place in digital spaces. Trends in digital identity ...

Fintech decacorn Plaid is expanding beyond its core product of account linking — its first major expansion since its 2013 inception. In conjunction with its “Plaid Forum” event, the startup today ...

FMCSA now requires identity verification for new registrants in URS. The agency plans to require all registrants to verify their identities once its new registration system rolls out. The new ...

New testing at DHS shows a wide range in the performance of online identity proofing systems. Some simply don’t work well. Some affiliates of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service are pushing for ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has tapped ID.me to verify the identities of beneficiaries on Medicare.gov, according to a Tuesday announcement from the identity-proofing company. ID.me ...

X appears to be working on new ID verification features several months after rampant impersonation temporarily derailed the company’s paid verification plans. The platform is now working on an ...

A few months after raising $1 billion, payments startup Checkout.com has announced that it plans to acquire French startup Ubble, which operates a remote identity verification service. The deal should ...

Know your customer’ norms were designed to curb financial crime, but they have exposed millions to the risk of their identity ...