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The Device-Free Future Of Payments
How self-sovereign data will allow us to make payments and verify our identities without devices.
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The UN’s Legal Identity Task Force: Opportunities and Risks
The UN’s efforts to implement legal identity for all, and the care that needs to be taken.
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eSSIF: The European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework
An explanation of how blockchain technology could help deliver public services to people across Europe.
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Kenyan Court Ruling on Huduma Namba Identity System: the Good, the Bad and the Lessons
The judgment in the Huduma Namba case, and the implications it has for the roll out of Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS).
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What is GDPR? The Basics of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation
The legal requirements of the EU’s GDPR, how businesses should handle data, and the effects on user’s privacy.
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Governing ID: India’s Unique Identity Programme
The second case study evaluation of digital identity governance from the Centre for the Internet and Society, India, focuses on the country’s Aadhaar system.
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Implementing a 21st Century Approach to Digital Identity
How the UK can position itself to be a world leader in secure, privacy-enhancing and trusted technology.
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Amid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance
How decentralized identity technology is slowly gathering pace but does not yet amount to an ecosystem.
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Biometrics and Financial Inclusion in sub-Sahara
How biometric initiatives will help those in Africa currently unable to access financial services due to insufficient ID.
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Forget Erasure: Why Blockchain is Really Incompatible with the GDPR
In this blog post for The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Elizabeth M. Renieris argues that blockchain is fundamentally at odds with General Data Protection Regulation.
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