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MWC18: Operators Poised to make Unique Contribution to Securing Trust in Digital Identity
Thursday 8 February, 2018
As the digital economy grows, and the Internet of Things expands, digital identity authentication will play an increasingly routine role in the lives of billions around the world. The security and reliability of the identity solutions they use will therefore only become ...
Securing Trust in India’s Digital Citizenship
Monday 22 January, 2018
Jai Rajaraman, Vice President and Global Head of Technology User privacy has been at the forefront of debates over digital identity since their inception. The case of Aadhaar, the Indian government’s digital identity solution, has attracted particular attention in recent ...
Digital Identity: What to Expect in 2018
Thursday 11 January, 2018
2017 was a profoundly important year in digital identity. The tide turned decisively against usernames and passwords, with more than 86% of consumers expressing doubts over the security and convenience of the format, and mobile network operators around the world agreeing ...
China Mobile Now Scales up GSMA Mobile Connect for Global Authentication
Thursday 21 December, 2017
China Mobile have announced their intention to advance in the digital identity market Sihan Bo Chen, Head of Greater China, GSMA A steady rise in spam and fraudulent activity in recent years has left many Chinese people reluctant to share personal information for commercial ...
Is Secret Data Trawling a Viable Way to Conduct the Census?
Friday 15 December, 2017
Marie Austenaa, Head of Business Development, Identity, GSMA Mobile users are increasingly aware of the myriad possibilities their phones present. Since the arrival of smartphones, they have been used in a range of ways to help people organise their personal lives – as ...
Taiwan’s Launch of Mobile Connect Represents Maturity of Asia’s Identity Market
Thursday 7 December, 2017
Mobile Connect has now launched in Taiwan, where the digital identity solution is finding a range of applications in the public sector. Through collaboration between Taiwanese operators, municipal authorities in Taipei, and the national government, 2.7 million people in ...
How Mobile Technology is Making Inroads in Digital Healthcare
Thursday 30 November, 2017
Healthcare is an increasingly digital affair. Patients are increasingly able to access, monitor and add to their healthcare records via connected devices such as their mobile phones. By using recent innovations such as healthcare apps, they can play a more active role in ...
Tapping into Asia’s Blossoming Digital Identity Market – Next week’s Mobile Connect Summit
Thursday 16 November, 2017
Asia’s digital economy is growing at a remarkable pace. Recent research shows that, over the last year alone, the number of digital consumers in Southeast Asia rose by 50 per cent, bringing the total value of the region’s online economy to $50 billion. The report by Bain ...
Operators Taking the Lead in Digital Identity
Monday 2 October, 2017
Consumers are increasingly tired of usernames and passwords. As the variety of online purchases made by the average person has increased, so has the number of different login details they must remember, and as a result the convenience of the format has been greatly ...
Implanted Microchips: a Bridge too far
Wednesday 27 September, 2017
David Pollington, Technical Director, GSMA Among the more striking items in technology news last month was the announcement by Three Square Market, a company in Wisconsin that is preparing to install RFID microchips into its employees. The firm expects to place devices about ...
US Operators Join Forces on Authentication
Friday 15 September, 2017
Mobile network operators are taking the lead in identity authentication. It was announced last week that the four largest operators in the United States – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon – have agreed to collaborate on a Mobile Authentication Taskforce. With the ...
3 Reasons to Attend MWCA’s Identity Seminar
Friday 1 September, 2017
Whilst digital technology has stimulated the growth of new and innovative services across practically every sector in the, service providers have yet to fully capitalise on this opportunity. Why? Against a backdrop of high profile security breaches and data leaks, customers ...
Could UK’s Planned GDPR Implementation Signal Global Trend?
Wednesday 9 August, 2017
In 2017, the UK Government announced its plans to introduce new legislation that will give citizens greater control of their personal data. The legislation will expand on existing law that allows people ‘the right to be forgotten’ which (mostly) applies to internet search ...
MWCA: Digital Identity in the Innovation City
Tuesday 8 August, 2017
See below for a list of digital identity demonstrations in the GSMA Innovation City As the Americas experiences explosive growth in its digital economy, businesses across the continent are searching for an identity solution that adds security, convenience and privacy to ...
Markets Turn Their Focus to Cross-Border Trade of Digital Services
Wednesday 26 July, 2017
Since the drafting of eIDAS in 2014, there has been a renewed interest from businesses, particularly in Europe, in secure cross-border trade using digital services. Initiatives such as the Mobile Connect-eIDAS pilots, both in 2015 and the upcoming pilot, which demonstrate ...
Mobile Connect-eIDAS Pilot Prepares for Secure Cross-Border Trade
Thursday 6 July, 2017
Marta Ienco, Head of the Government & Regulatory affairs, Personal Data As we draw closer to the implementation of the eIDAS Regulation in September 2018, both governments and private-sector service providers prepare to capitalise on its impact. Designed to enable ...
Asia’s Mobile Industry Unites behind Mobile Connect
Thursday 6 July, 2017
Download presentations from the event Shanghai—A broad array of MNO’s across Asia have underscored their commitment to Mobile Connect after revealing how the identity solution is central to their aims of enabling more digital services and revenues across the region. During ...
GSMA-FIDO Collaboration a Step Towards Secure Authentication
Thursday 29 June, 2017
The recent collaborative agreement between the GSMA and the FIDO Alliance, the ecosystem for standards-based, interoperable authentication, is a sign that the digital community is moving closer towards delivering a mass-market identity solution. Forged in May this year, the ...
Exploring Asia’s Identity Offerings at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2017
Monday 19 June, 2017
Asia is experiencing a rapid transformation of its digital services. According to Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report, mobile has surpassed both desktop computers and TV’s as the China’s most popular means of consuming media, while In India, mobile is now responsible ...
Security Experts Warn of More Dangerous Attacks
Monday 12 June, 2017
Gautam Hazari, Technical Director, Identity, GSMA We are in a race against time to develop defences capable of dealing with increasingly dangerous cyber threats, security experts have warned. This was the consensus among the wider mobile industry’s leading security experts ...