The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has launched an ambitious initiative to phase out traditional passwords in favor of passkeys, marking

A new OIDF research paper is now open for public comment: "The Unfinished Digital Estate: Culture, Law, and Technology After Death."

Your logins will live on after you pass on. Make sure they end up in the right hands.

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Passkeys were built to enable a password-free future. Here's what they are and how you can start using them.

Every few months, like clockwork, a talk or article appears claiming that new research has uncovered a “vulnerability” with passkeys.  This can

Much like "the cloud" or "the superhighway", the metaphor of a "wallet" has become convenient shorthand for a tangle of technical, policy, and usability decisions. As we keep building out digital identity ecosystems with verifiable credentials, identity wallets, and cross-jurisdictional trust models, I ask: is the metaphor still helping us?

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A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

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Europol’s 2025 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), published today, reveals how stolen data fuels the digital underworld, powering a criminal ecosystem that spans from online fraud…

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