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Digital ID Systems

Government responses to COVID-19 reinforce the need to ask — #WhyID?

29 Apr 2020

The ongoing global health crisis has demonstrated with painful clarity the risks posed by digital identity systems that centralize biometric data, health records, and other sensitive personal information. It is essential that governments, development agencies, funders, and all other stakeholders first ask the question #WhyID.

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Government responses to COVID-19 reinforce the need to ask — #WhyID?
29 Apr 2020
Government responses to COVID-19 reinforce the need to ask — #WhyID?
United Nations Human Rights Concil

United Nations: protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul

17 Oct 2019

Governments should pay attention to the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services.

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United Nations: protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul
17 Oct 2019
United Nations: protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul

Poverty in the U.S.? Yes — and it’s a digital rights issue

16 Nov 2017

We’re asking the United Nations to examine barriers to internet access, invasion of privacy for welfare recipients, and the targeted surveillance of immigrant, poor, and minority communities.

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Poverty in the U.S.? Yes — and it’s a digital rights issue
16 Nov 2017
Poverty in the U.S.? Yes — and it’s a digital rights issue