The convergence between public ID and private ID was a core topic of Government ID World, a conference part of Smart Security Week, which took place earlier this week in Marseille, France, just ahead of a major European deadline: all eIDAS-compliant digital IDs are set to become interoperable on September 29, 2018. In our always-on, always online world, the need for stronger identification models is always more present. At the same time, individuals and organizations alike have realized the value of their identity. This has led the industry to develop gateways between private entity needs of digital ID and the requirements and constraints of government ID. Europe is rich with digital ID proj
Smart Security Week, a yearly event taking place in Marseille, France, has just had its inauguration with a speech by Jon Shamah, a European eID Subject Matter Expert. The most significant and current topic is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and how it may affect each of us as citizens as well as our businesses. By now, everyone has heard of GDPR, the EU regulation that aims at protecting personal data. GDPR is essentially based on four pillars: rights of individuals, right to be informed, right of erasure and obligations of data processors. A daily consequence for each of us is the evolution in what we see when we visit any website: instead of a standardized cookie warning, we get
September 2018 will be remembered as the first time the expression “6G” was identified as a project in a conference. Of course, as of now, 6G is far from being defined. Let’s say it is 5G made faster and better. Having a new buzzword is essentially a means for the industry to keep on selling new equipment to operator …. The project, “6Genesis — the 6G-Enabled Wireless Smart Society & Ecosystem,” is also a means for the university of Oulu, in Finland, to raise EUR 250 million to fuel its research on the future of communications, with a focus on the “implementation of 5G communication technology and the development of a possible 6G standard.” Focusing on 5G, the GSMA is pushing the agenda of t
Apple just announced its new range of smartphones, the iPhone Xs and Xs Max. While many analysts focus on communications, screen, camera characteristics or the disappearing of the home button, our industry focus is on the SIM card: Apple is now putting all its weight on the SIM card evolution path. As we anticipated, the evolution from the removable SIM to the eSIM needs an intermediate step with a dual SIM handset having an eSIM along with a drawer for a traditional removeable SIM: this is exactly what Apple is announcing now. eSIMs bring end-users the ability to quickly and simply churn from an MNO to another one. For this reason, operators have been trying to resist and even to block this
