The Wallet in Your Pocket Now Holds Your National Identity
Your national identity now sits beside your airline miles, and the next hand to present it will not be yours
Topic
Digital identity
Identity infrastructure as a decision system: what a credential asserts, and what it leaves out about the person named in it.
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Wrappers, Not Records
The World Bank has standardised the digital wallet. Its record names the person a credential describes, and has no field for the person a decision is about.
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