Governments globally are developing and launching digital identity schemes. A variety of models exist and many of the largest are activated in the global south.

Digital IDs in mobile wallets and apps are becoming more commonplace. You can add everything from your driver's license to your school or work ID, or even a passport, to a mobile device. Pull it up on ...

‘Orwellian society’, ‘checkpoint Britain’ and ‘surveillance society’. These are just some of the terms used to describe the government’s digital ID scheme. When it is eventually rolled out, it have ...

In the evolving world of identity verification, few terms are as widely used or as broadly misunderstood as digital ID. For some, it means a secure login for accessing public services. For others, ...

The New World ID: Proof of Human for the AI Era Scales Across the Digital Platforms People and Businesses Use Every Day Docusign, Okta, Tinder, Vercel, and Zoom bring World ID proof of human to ...

What was initially sold as a bold move to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants and change the UK’s approach to digital ID has now been abandoned. The proposed scheme, unveiled in September 2025, ...

In September 2025, UK prime minister Keir Starmer announced that a digital ID system would be implemented by the government to tackle undocumented migration. Much like confirming identity when using ...

We already use our phones to pay for coffees and restaurants, and now we have one more new way to use our phones – to verify our identity in order to fly. On Wednesday, Apple said its users can now ...

As more African countries roll out DPI programs, Mauritius is positioning itself as a model for how data protection and ...

The Rashomon Effect is a narrative technique pioneered by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, whereby each act of a story shows the same scene from the perspective of a different character. At the end, ...