Digital Identity Friday Five: December 13, 2024
Covering the most interesting news for the week of December 7 to December 13
Today is Friday the 13th of December. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
1/ LexisNexis Risk Solutions to Acquire IDVerse - An OCR Labs Company
Big M&A news to start this week with LNRS picking up another #identity signal
Terms of the deal were not disclosed but congrats to the IDVerse team on the exit
AU10TIX, Veriff, & Veridas are also listed as #subprocessors on LNRS’ website - will be interesting how this acquisition impacts the ecosystem
Sub Processors 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eafgGazV
2/ Google Introduces Willow, their state-of-the-art quantum chip
Google dropped big news in the #quantumcomputing world
What was most interesting to me was this line "it lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes" from Hartmut Neven, Founder and Lead, Google Quantum AI
Whoa
I’m fascinated by this field and its potential impact on #digitalidentity so I’m doing a deep-dive into this topic and will report back on a PEAK IDV LIVE event in February
Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eRgWg7Pk
3/ authID Expands Workforce Verification Customer Base, Signs TurboCheck
"Hiring fraud is an escalating challenge for employers globally, with AI-driven fake identities and deepfake videos becoming more prevalent," said Emmanuel Toutain, CEO of TurboCheck
Congrats Rhon and team
#workforce #employmentfraud #deepfakes
4/ SureMark Digital and NILX Team Up to Combat Deepfakes
NIL = Name, Image, and Likeness
NILx is a platform that promotes and guides athletes through the NIL process
SureMark Digital offers AI deepfake protection for high-visibility individuals
Congrats on the partnership!
5/ Trinsic Decentralized Identity Assets Acquired by Dentity to Accelerate #DigitalID Adoption
"Strategic Move Sharpens Trinsic’s Focus on its Identity Acceptance Network, now Exceeding 95 Million Users, While Enabling Longtime Partner Dentity to Accelerate Adoption of Decentralized ID"
Congrats Riley and Jeffrey Schwartz on the transaction
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And those are this week’s #fridayfive
**** LINKS
IDVERSE: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lexisnexis-risk-solutions-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-idverse-302326808.html
GOOGLE: https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/