The NSW government is planning to pilot its first “verifiable credential” later this year, as it looks to solve digital identity proofing issues that businesses still face.
In early 2020, the government revealed plans for a ‘copy solution’ for the digital driver’s licence (DDL) to extend the acceptance of the credential […]
Victorians are being monitored by a new secretive government agency […]
Normalizing the use of digital ID.
In a further normalization of digital IDs, movie theaters in the UK are set to introduce digital IDs for kids, used to prevent kids from seeing films with sexual and violent content.
The […]
During the recent election campaign, some minor parties (for example Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the United Australia Party) advocated against proposed digital identity legislation. The Digital ID system was initiated by the Coalition Government in 2015 as a ‘safe, secure and convenient way to prove who you […]
Why is the push for digital identity […]
After years of research, Robert Epstein, a Harvard-trained psychologist, found Google uses manipulative and deceptive practices that can sway your perceptions and behaviors, including how you vote in presidential elections.
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Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service
Last week, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) slapped a £7.5m fine on a smallish tech company called Clearview AI for “using images of people in the UK, and […]
Mastercard recently launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At the checkout, users will be forced to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of […]
The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December 2021 in a special session for only the second time since the WHO’s founding in 1948, the Health Assembly of the WHO […]
