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Private apps step in as state digital ID stalls
Original: While Digital ID has stalled (for many, thankfully) as a state project, the privatisation of age verification continues
Age verification is being privatised even as state-backed digital ID schemes stall. Private providers Yoti and Luciditi are expanding rapidly, with Yoti reportedly downloaded more than eight million times, and now operate with clear legal grounding. Commentators are asking what this shift means for privacy and oversight, given commercial firms will handle sensitive identity and age checks once handled by public authorities.
Why now: Renewed legal certainty for commercial age-check providers has raised concerns about privacy and the outsourcing of identity verification.
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- While Digital ID has stalled (for many, thankfully) as a state project, the privatisation of age verification continues with Yoti & Luciditi apps surging ahead (Yoti has been download over 8mn times) now there's a clear legal grounding for their service(s). The Q. is whether a… · ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk · 4
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