How Oman’s smart card could help bridge gaps in India’s Aadhaar digital ID According to an OECD study, digital identity (DID) systems can be classified in four categories: browser-based, mobile-based, smart card-based and biometrics-based. Countries may (and often do) combine several of these solutions to provide citizens with proofs of…

“The world’s most dangerous malware”: This is how EMOTET was known until January 2021. How did it earn this title? Who were the hackers behind it? Find out in the first cybercrime episode of Bar Lume, a new Italian podcast on organized crime, mafia and terrorism! Listen to the original…

On Facebook’s business model, Google’s governance and the GDPR It will soon be a year since the premiere of the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, which hit a record number of viewers and sparked an unprecedented debate about our relationship with digital platforms. At this point, it is worth looking…

Are data more like goods or rights? 5 models for personal data management On the first day of the Next Generation Internet Summit which took place last September (online, of course), one of the key topics on the agenda was the future of the so-called “European data economy”. …

Successes and drawbacks from a Finnish digital democracy experiment Finland is traditionally held as a stable and advanced democracy. After all, it was the first European country to grant women the right to vote and stand for elections as early as 1906. …