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Brussels’ New Age Verification App: Hacked in Two Minutes
Governments are racing to mandate digital ID systems that turn every citizen’s passport into another entry on the next breach notification.
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A Warrant That Treated a Face Like a Password
How you lock down your phone now matters as much as what’s on it.
Alaska Plots AI-Driven Digital Identity, Payments, and Biometric Data System
The state’s new system could turn bureaucracy into automation, and consent into a checkbox no one really controls.
Digital ID for Pensions? UN Tests Blockchain System Despite Privacy Fears
A blockchain pension tool pitched as a digital public good now carries the undertone of a global ID experiment with far wider ambitions.
World Bank Wants to Replace Your Signature With Biometrics and Digital IDs
Critics warn that centralized control over digital IDs could erode privacy and increase government surveillance.
Meta’s Creepy Skin Deep “Security” Idea
Meta’s invasive biometric security measures as a disturbing overreach into personal privacy.
Visa Applies for Biometric Authentication Patent
The growth of controversial biometric payment methods.
Kenya Is Being Used as a Testing Ground for Biometric-Based Vaccine Tracking for Babies
Using fingerprints and voice data.
Ireland’s State-Owned Postal Service to Introduce Digital ID
New partnership.
The EU Is Running a Digital ID Pilot
A collaboration with banks and tech companies.
Norway’s BankID System Is Becoming a De Facto Digital ID
Rolling out with all major banks.
