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Australia is about to get a national online ID system — the Digital ID — which promises to improve the security and privacy of data online. However, concerns among Australians persist. Continue reading What Australia’s Digital ID Means to How Citizens Interact With Businesses Online
There’s a danger in security research that we’ve discussed a few times before. If you discover a security vulnerability on a production system, and there’s no bug bounty, you’ve likely …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Good Faith, Easy Forgery, and I18N
Tech companies and global organizations have championed health passes, sometimes known as vaccine passports, as a means to securely reopen businesses and borders as COVID-19 cases drop and vaccination rates rise. The technology is meant to serve as a secure way to prove vaccination without someone needing to present a physical vaccine card or other documentation. For instance, instead of checking a customer’s vaccine card, a business or airline could simply scan a QR code that provides verification based on uploaded medical records. The European Union, Israel, Japan and Singapore have all embraced vaccine passports to an extent to help reopen their borders. Several states including New York and soon California have embraced verification technology. A growing number of states, including Arizona, Florida, and Georgia have banned requiring them. Some opponents of the technology have raised concerns that vaccine passports are an unnecessary replacement for paper, and could disadvantage individuals […]
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Verified.Me will allow people to consent to an institution sharing their data to verify their identity or access services. Continue reading Canadian Banks and Telecoms Are Collaborating on a Digital ID System