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Fido company history timeline

2004

In November 2004, Microcell was acquired by the other competing GSM carrier, Rogers Communications, for an estimated $1.4 billion.

2009

2009 – Validity Sensors and PayPal discuss using biometrics for identification of online users instead of passwords.

2012

July 2012 – The FIDO Alliance was founded by PayPal, Lenovo, Nok Nok Labs, Validity Sensors, Infineon, and Agnitio, and work on a passwordless authentication protocol began.

2013

February 2013 – The Alliance was launched publicly.

2016

December 2016 – The FIDO Japan Working Group (FJWG) was formed.

2018

September 2018 – The FIDO Alliance announced the expansion of the Authenticator Certification Program, launching Level 3 (L3) and Level 3+ (L3+) testing and certification.

2021

April 2021 – The German Federal Office for Information Security achieved the Certified Authenticator Level 3+ certification.

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