How do you prove that you are who you say you are? That’s the fundamental question underpinning so much of what we do online. Our answers are varied: Passwords. Numerical codes. And, increasingly, biometrics.
Elon Musk is set to spend billions of dollars to acquire Twitter and control its destiny. And he’s already making promises about how he can create a more open, free, and authenticated Twitter experience.
Today, most risks facing consumers from cyber criminals can be tied back to credential or data theft in some form. What if there was a future in which technology stopped this from happening?
Today, most risks facing consumers from cyber criminals can be tied back to credential or data theft in some form. What if there was a future in which technology stopped this from happening?
Nearly every day online, we’re asked to provide some element of our personal information. Birth dates. Government ID numbers. Personal emails. We’re expected to give up this highly valuable information not only to do fun things online – lik…
Identity and privacy have always been a point of contention both online and offline. But while we can generally control our identity and privacy in the offline world with ease, digital identity has long been controlled by third-party entiti…
Special thanks to Ivan Basart of ValidatedID, Viky Manaila of Intesi Group, and Harm Jan Arendshorst of iLabs for their input.
In June 2021, the European Commission proposed an update to its pan-European digital identity framework that will enable every European to have a set of digital identity credentials that are recognized anywhere in the EU. At the core of thi…
The US’ tax collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has changed course with its short-lived identity verification system that was only recently implemented. Last November, the vendor ID.me was awarded a $86 million contract t…