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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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  Three Dimensions of Identity

  In this blog for Evernym, authors Daniel Hardman and Jason Law unpick the complex ways in which identity manifests itself across "several dimensions"

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  Open Questions on Good ID: Can it be Measured?

  Measuring digital identity requires nuanced and versatile systems. Abiah Weaver explores how to create standards that evaluate what is and isn’t Good ID

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  Blockchain: Cutting through the noise

  In a 6-part blog series, the Better Than Cash Alliance unpick the hype behind blockchain and explore promising applications

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  Omidyar Network Unpacks Good ID: An Update to Our Point of View on Digital Identity

  Abiah Weaver – director of marketing strategy and communications at Omidyar Network – blogs about the organization’s evolving vision for Good ID.

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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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  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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