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  Mastercard Introduces Consumer-Centric Model for Digital Identity

  In March 2019, Mastercard presented its new framework of how digital identity will work for its systems, “starting with the individual sitting at the heart of every digital interaction.”

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  What Do Data Protection and Privacy Practices Look Like Around the World?

  This is a list of data protection practices, principles and frameworks from advocacy groups, governments and across the private sector.

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  Why over one billion people lack identity (and what can be done about it)

  Scott Reid from iRespond argues individual identity is a fundamental human right, and yet it’s a stark reality that over a billion people lack any recognized form of identity.

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  The Privacy Project

  The New York Times takes a look at the big questions that come with the rapid technological changes around us.

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  No Government Should Get to Decide This

  A short film from Open Society Foundations illustrating the impact of ID that fails to reflect the true identities of transgender people.

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  Identity and the Urban Poor

  With over two-thirds of the world’s population set to be living in cities by 2050, GSMA surveys the identity needs and challenges of the poorest urban residents.

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  Establishing Identity Is a Vital, Risky and Changing Business

  A long-read from The Economist that maps the evolution of identity and the need to define it.

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  Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think

  In this opinion piece in Wired, the Executive Director of Access Now and RightsCon says we must advocate for the minimisation of centralised personal data to uphold our fundamental rights.

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  You Deserve Privacy Online. Here's How You Could Actually Get It

  Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for comprehensive federal privacy legislation during Davos 2019 .

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  What’s Your Perspective On Digital Identity?

  Caribou Digital’s Senior Director for Research reflects on the #GoodID dialog to date following a workshop at Harvard Kennedy School.

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