On the same day as the OECD meeting, the governments of 21 African countries quietly embraced a vaccine passport system, which will apparently link up with other global systems.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will promote the unification of the different COVID passport systems in the world,
Employees at the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) have opposed the use of the Australian government’s proposed digital identity scheme to de-anonymize social media accounts. Former minister for employment, workforce, skills, small and family business Robert Stewart proposed the use as a way to stop online trolling, Crikey reported.
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Account ownership and digital payments have increased, so has the gender gap in account ownership, according to the World Bank, after it analyzed the Global Findex 2021 database.
The World Bank attributed the improvement on financial inclusion by controversial modern digital ID systems, and called for more investment in the […]
The bank has been facing much backlash in the last week.
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British bank Halifax has threatened to close customer accounts and […]
The federal government has scrapped the requirement for international travellers arriving into Australia to use its digital passenger card, amid questions over the app’s usability.
Mastercard has been accredited as an identity exchange under Australia’s Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF).
The accreditation was announced by vice president, digital identity Matt Bourne on LinkedIn.
The credit provider applied […]
When asked if a United States CBDC would be used to control how, when and where the population spends their money, a senior vice president for the St. Louis Fed’s Research Division responded, “in life, one can’t give absolute assurance […]
Electronic Frontiers Australia has joined with Digital Rights Watch and the Australian Privacy Foundation to file an official complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner about the conduct of Bunnings, Kmart, and The Good Guys as originally reported by CHOICE.
Our full complaint is […]
Last month, it is reported that Zoom will develop a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that can scan users’ faces and speed to determine their emotions. Now, the platform is in its early stages of development and is now receiving some backlash from several human rights groups, such as Access Now, the American […]
NSW Digital Minister Victor Dominello sees decentralised credentials that give citizens control of their digital identity playing an important role in the future, as the boundaries between the physical and virtual worlds becoming increasingly blurred.
In an interview on the […]
