OpenID Foundation names Biometric Update as media partner
The OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce Biometric Update as the official media partner for the forthcoming OpenID Well-Known Conference. Taking place in London on February 2-4, 2027, this is the OpenID Foundation’s first global conference. Its goal is to help digital identity and credential ecosystems move from implementation to widespread adoption. The conference will […]
ADT CG responds to HESC research security consultation
How can institutions be confident about who is taking part in academic research, and whether their link to an institution is still valid? Australia currently has no common national baseline for answering that question. This is one of the key issues raised by the Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG) in its response to […]
OIDF publishes threat model for cross-boundary AI agents
Organizations are rolling out AI agents faster than they are building the systems needed to identify those agents and control what they are allowed to do. One of the key points at which this becomes a problem is when an agent crosses a security boundary. For example, an agent hosted with one provider may need […]
The OpenID Foundation responds to Australia’s privacy reform consultation
The OpenID Foundation, through its Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG), has responded to the Australian Government’s consultation on the Exposure Draft Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026. The consultation seeks to modernize and strengthen Australia’s privacy laws. The response, which can be found here, addresses how the Bill would work in practice […]
OIDF responds to EMVCo Agentic Payments framework draft
The OpenID Foundation has submitted comments to EMVCo on the EMV® Agentic Payments – Framework for Specifications v1.0 DRAFT. As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of consumers, every payment raises an identity question: who is the agent, and what has the consumer authorized it to do? The line between payments and identity is beginning […]
Registration Open for OpenID Foundation Hybrid Workshop on Mon 2nd Nov 2026
Attend the OIDF Workshop prior to IIW Fall 2026 on 2nd Nov 2026 The OpenID Foundation will be holding a hybrid workshop on Mon 2nd Nov 2026, just ahead of the Fall 2026 Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). This hybrid event is kindly being hosted at CrowdStrike’s facilities in Sunnyvale, California, USA for the in-person event […]
Australian Age Assurance Experience
A long journey starts with a single step (often in the dark!) By Thomas Ludot (and co), Senior Consultant at ID Partners A long journey starts with a single step — Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching We know. It is obvious. We often know we have to go, but we wait until we have […]
OpenID Well-Known Conference 2027 – Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals The OpenID Foundation is inviting proposals for its inaugural OpenID Well-Known Conference, bringing together an intimate, expert community of decision-makers, ecosystem leaders and technologists from established and emerging ecosystems around the world. Our focus is clear: how can we use standards and technology to advance, scale and drive adoption across digital identity […]
Getting Cozy with COAZ: Securing APIs and AI Agents with Standardized Authorization
By Atul Tulshibagwale and Alex Olivier, co-chairs of the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group The views expressed in this post are those of the authors, in their capacity as co-chairs of the AuthZEN Working Group, and do not necessarily represent the position of the OpenID Foundation as a whole. AuthZEN is a great way to […]
How we got here: what six decades of identity history tell us about the agent age
By Sar Haidar, Platform Engineer at MIT Open Learning Every identity standard we work with today was built to solve a problem someone was staring at right then. OAuth, OIDC, SAML, the token flows we spend our careers refining: each one began as an urgent answer to an immediate question. That was the premise of […]