A recent security incident involving Revolut raises a question that goes far beyond one company or one financial institution: how can we reliably verify in the digital world not only where a request for sensitive data comes from, but also who is actually sending it, whether that person is authorized to make the request, and which data they are entitled to access? The case shows that a communication channel can appear legitimate without necessarily proving the identity and authority of the person on the other side.
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The Institute 1 April has completed the preparation of a proposal for a QEI – Quantized Encrypted Identity research pilot project for the Republic of Slovenia. The document represents the next step in the development of the QEI initiative.
Digital identity is becoming one of the key building blocks of the digital society. In the coming years, we will use it not only to access government portals, but increasingly also when interacting with banks, healthcare services, educational institutions, businesses and other digital services.
Institute 1. april has received an official response from the European Commission regarding the strategic QEI – Quantized Encrypted Identity initiative, which is intended to explore safer and more privacy-oriented approaches to digital identity.
The European Union is entering an important phase in the development of digital identity. A citizen’s identity is increasingly understood not simply as an identity document or a username used to access an online service.
Most users think that logging into a system is a single process, but two different processes take place in the background: identification and authentication.
