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  Ethics, Data and Analytics: The Problem that Insurers will have with Digital Identity

  David Minty of Ethics and Insurance sets out the role of identity in the emerging insurance landscape.

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  Exclusion and Identity: Life Without ID

  Using the case of Chile, Privacy International explores how ID and identification can lead to exclusion and questions if "universal" ID systems can ever cover and serve all citizens fairly.

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  Twenty-Nine Years Without an Identity

  The legal advocay group Namati tells the story of Mahmoud, a father of four who was denied his right to ID for 29 years due to discrimination within the Kenyan Government system.

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  The Future of Digital Identity

  The U.K. Government’s new Director for Digital Identity, Lisa Barrett, outlines her priorities to get the balance right for both users and identity providers.

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  Principles for Good ID in Africa

  Mark Straub of Smile Identity and Khosla Impact drafts a set of propositions for making digital ID “good” in Africa

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  The Role of Digital Identification for Healthcare

  This paper - authored by the ID4D initiative - brings together examples of how foundational identification is used in healthcare systems around the world.

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  Indian Government Allows Expanded Private Sector Use of Aadhaar Through Ordinance

  In this article, Mozilla raises concerns that a new government ordinance accelerating private sector use of Aadhaar, issued without parliamentary approval, will undermine the protections that the Indian Supreme Court put in place.

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  UK National Audit Office’s Investigation into GOV.UK Verify

  An investigative report into the UK’s online identity verification programme by Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office.

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  Good ID: What’s policy got to do with it? Workshop Report

  The Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School and Omidyar Network hosted a workshop in Boston in February 2019 that explored the governance of digital identity.

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  The GOV.UK Verify Approach to Identity Verification

  Dr. Edgar A. Whitley, Associate Professor (Reader) in Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, gives his overview of the UK government’s unique model for proving identity online.

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