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  Understanding Capture and Validate KYC Processes: Global Experiences, Challenges and Learnings

  The GSMA investigates the ways mobile network operators can validate cell phone users’ identities and provides learnings for how to best implement future systems.

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  Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity in 2019

  The GSMA explores how lack of legal identification impacts individuals’ ability to access vital cell phone services leaving them digitally, socially and financially excluded.

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  Google is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android

  Venture Beat unpicks Google’s recent announcements on digital identification services and data encryption.

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  Identity Hubs as Personal Datastores

  This blog post by Alex Simons announces Microsoft’s intent to contribute code to the Decentralized Identity Foundation Identity Hub’s open source reference implementation.

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  50 Shades of Privacy: Consent and the Fallacy that will Prevent Privacy for All

  When it comes to data sharing, consent and choice are two different things. Susan Morrow argues that we need to shift towards systems that support genuine choice.

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  Finding Ctrl: Visions for the Future Internet

  An online repository of inspiring and informative content from Nesta and NGI exploring the history, impact and potential of the internet.

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  Exploring the Gender Gap in Identification

  With women and girls disproportionately excluded by official identification systems, GSMA explores the unique policy-related challenges female citizens face when accessing or using ID.

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  'Privacy Is Becoming a Luxury': What Data Leaks Are Like for the Poor

  The intersections of wealth and data privacy are explored in this Vice feature, revealing that the poorest residents are more vulnerable to the impact of data breaches.

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  Good Conversation is as Important as Good Technology

  Dr. Isaac Rutenberg from Strathmore University shares key points for issued ID in Kenya – critically – whose needs are served by a new system, and why the public debate needs to be both engaging and nuanced.

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  Good Identity Lives In Between

  Philip Sheldrake, chartered engineer and budding web scientist working with the AKASHA Foundation, posits why identities, relationships and information prop each other up to help Good ID exist "in between."

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