Digital ID
Canada faces call to scrap vaccine passport app after elderly man without a smartphone is threatened with fine
Canada’s attack on civil liberties continues.
Australian minister proposed the idea of using Digital ID system to de-anonymize social media users
An overreach in terms of what the system was designed for.
Bill Gates tells governments to invest in technologies for “payment and ID systems”
More central control.
Payments company Mastercard wants to be a digital ID provider
Making big moves in Australia.
Pakistan extends digital ID system by linking it to health insurance
More privacy concerns.
Belgium is the latest country to propose a digital ID system
To be tied to a person’s phone number.
UK movie theaters to use digital IDs for kids
Normalizing the use of digital ID.
California to test new digital ID
A new digital driver’s license.
Apple makes further push into digital IDs, with driver’s licenses now in Maryland
The second US state to join.
US Postal Service wants to provide digital ID and collect more biometric data
It envisions this digital ID being used in the public and private sector.
Taiwan combines vaccine passport with digital ID number
Are other countries destined to do the same?
