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Engineering deep-dives, compliance guides, and product updates from the Stile team.
Florida’s New Driver License Design: A Five-Step Readiness Check
Florida is issuing a new card design while older driver licenses and ID cards remain valid. Verification teams should prepare to accept both without mistaking an unfamiliar layout for fraud.
Fake Job Applicants: How to Verify Who Gets Hired and Given Access
Fake job applicants may use stolen identities or stand-ins. Learn where employers can verify the person before issuing equipment, credentials, or access.
Account Takeover Fraud: Protect Recovery and High-Risk Changes
Account takeover defense cannot end at login. Learn how to protect recovery, factor replacement, and other high-risk account changes.
What Is Identity Verification, and When Do You Need It?
Identity verification confirms that a person is who they claim to be. Learn what the check involves, when compliance or fraud risk calls for one, and how to add it to a workflow.
How Are ID and Biometric Images Protected During Verification?
A reported driver’s license leak shows why ID images need encryption, access controls, and deletion. Here’s how we’re building Stile to reduce exposure.
How to Integrate an Identity Verification API
Learn the secure architecture for identity verification, then implement server-side sessions, a hosted flow, and signed webhooks with Stile’s API.
How California's New Driver's License Digital Signature Works
This piece breaks down the cryptographic mechanism behind California's new driver's license and ID card security feature, for an engineering and compliance audience evaluating identity verification infrastructure.
When Identity Verification Creates More Risk
A driver said no to a broker's identity verification request for a selfie, truck records, and a CDL. Both sides saw a different kind of danger.
Do Digital IDs Track You? The mDL "Phone Home" Problem, Explained
Do digital IDs track you? Learn how device retrieval, server retrieval, selective disclosure, and retention shape mobile driver's license privacy.
Age Verification Without ID Uploads: How Private Age Checks Actually Work
New laws require age checks, but businesses do not need to collect ID scans. See how mDLs, zero-knowledge proofs, and facial estimation can verify age while minimizing personal data.
Developers Guide to Age Verification: Build vs. Buy
A practical developer guide to age verification build vs buy decisions, covering compliance drift, PII exposure, fallback methods, trust management, and when in-house infrastructure makes sense.
Why Age Verification is Broken (And How to Fix It)
Most age verification systems either collect too much data or are trivially easy to bypass. Here's how a privacy-first approach solves both problems without storing a single date of birth.