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WhyID: Protecting Our Identity in the Digital Age

Topic
Data protection Privacy Biometrics
Country/Region
UN

21 October 2019

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"To the leaders of International Development Banks, the United Nations, International Aid Organisations, Funding Agencies, and National Governments:

We are a group of civil society organisations, technologists, and experts who work on digital identity developments across the world. We have worked directly with vulnerable populations, and witnessed the impact that ill-considered, badly designed, and poorly implemented digital identity programmes can have on human lives.

A Basic Question: Why ID?"

See: WhyID: Protecting Our Identity in the Digital Age (Access Now, link)

See also: Facilitating innovation, ensuring protection: the ICRC Biometrics Policy (ICRC, link):

"As part of its digital transformation agenda, the ICRC decided to develop a Biometrics Policy that would both facilitate the responsible use of biometrics and address the data protection challenges this poses. So what does the responsible use of biometrics look like from the vantage point of an institution like the ICRC?"

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