Digital ID

In Sweden, IDs are issued by private entities, but banks trusted by the public have issued them, which has led to widespread adoption. In the UK, building trust between the public and government-certified private ID providers is also a challenge. Most countries that have successfully popularized digital IDs also focus on collaboration with private services, and using them to authenticate services closely related to people's lives has ultimately increased the convenience of digital IDs and led to their widespread adoption.

An increasing number of countries, including India, China, and Singapore, are considering digital ID and biometric information as a set, and rapidly growing ID startups are also improving their fraud detection capabilities by analyzing biometric information with AI. In China, the convenience of device-less "face pass" has been traded for strengthening surveillance, so developed countries are also moving toward local biometric authentication as a foundation for implementing self-sovereign identities.

To eliminate physical IDs and transition to completely digital IDs, the system must be fair to those across the digital divide (elderly, children, and the poor). In this regard, biometric authentication is an unavoidable technology, but robust systems such as encryption and blockchain are also required to reduce the possibility of data breaches to nearly zero.

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