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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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  '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 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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  A Tapestry of Credentials: How Self-Sovereign Identity Can Unlock Property Rights for Billions

  New America's Yuliya Panfil and Christopher Mellon - authors of The Credential Highway report - discuss self-sovereign identity, property rights and using data for good.

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  Good Digital Identity Principles for Africa

  Magdi Amin – an investment partner with Omidyar Network’s Digital Identity initiative – writes in iAfrikan about the opportunity digital identity offers Africa and the importance of making all ID “Good ID.”

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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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  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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  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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