OECD adopts recommendations on digital identity governance

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Council has adopted a new set of recommendations on how digital identity should be governed.

The OECD recommendations point to the importance of identity verification for the “functioning and resilience” of modern societies and economies, but said conventional forms of physical ID such as passports “are not adequate to meet the opportunities and challenges of the digital age.”

However, the recommendations make no explicit mention of biometrics, nor do they address any technical …

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