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Is blockchain the missing link for digital identity?
- Tuesday | 26th March, 2019
The GSMA is pushing its MobileConnect and Digital Identity initiatives as the most logical and scalable approach to digital identity by leveraging the security and relative ubiquity of mobile networks and smartphones. At the Hong Kong Blockchain Week conference earlier this month, a panel of experts debated whether blockchain was a viable platform to enable digital identity. This isn’t a sustainable situation in a world where everything is increasingly going digital. A decentralized digital ID eliminates the need for the police officer to access a database in the first place, George said. George cautioned that while blockchain technology can help enable a decentralized digital ID, there are a lot of technical challenges involving scalability, contextual information flows and interoperability.
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