Articles in “Digital ID”

Five issues shaping data, tech and privacy in the African region in 2021

Alice Munyua

January 27, 2021

The COVID 19 crisis increased our reliance on technology and accelerated tech disruption and innovation, as we innovated to fight the virus and cushion the impact. Nowhere was this felt … Read more

What could an “Open” ID system look like?: Recommendations and Guardrails for National Biometric ID Projects

Alice Munyua and Udbhav Tiwari

January 22, 2020

Update | 25/06/2020: Given the ongoing conversations around Taiwan’s Digital ID project, we have translated the white paper into Chinese in collaboration with the Mozilla Community in Taiwan. Original Post … Read more

Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law

Alice Munyua

February 8, 2019

Last month, the Kenya Parliament passed a seriously concerning amendment to the country’s national ID law, making Kenya home to the most privacy-invasive national ID system in the world. The … Read more

Open Policy & Advocacy

Articles in “Digital ID”

Five issues shaping data, tech and privacy in the African region in 2021

What could an “Open” ID system look like?: Recommendations and Guardrails for National Biometric ID Projects

Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law

Mozilla Weighs in on State Comprehensive Privacy Proposals

Mozilla’s Comments to FCC: Net Neutrality Essential for Competition, Innovation, Privacy

Global Privacy Control Empowers Individuals to Limit Privacy-Invasive Tracking

Mozilla applauds CFPB for taking on the Data Broker Ecosystem

Mozilla Supports Updates to the Health Breach Notification Rule

Mozilla Mornings: Choice or Illusion? Tackling Harmful Design Practices

Mozilla Asks US Supreme Court to Support Responsible Content Moderation

The Revival We Need: The FCC Takes On Net Neutrality

Mozilla Meetups – Code to Conduct in AI: Open Source, Privacy, and More

Mozilla Meetups with CDT: Talking Tech Transparency

Continuing to Protect our Users in Kazakhstan

Continuing to Protect our Users in Kazakhstan

It’s time for the G20’s first digital agenda

Mozilla provides feedback to ACM’s DSA Guidelines

Global Network Fee Proposals are Troubling. Here are Three Paths Forward.

Mozilla Mornings on addressing online harms through advertising transparency

The EU’s Current Approach to QWACs (Qualified Website Authentication Certificates) will Undermine Security on the Open Web

Mozilla files comments with the European Commission on safeguarding democracy in the digital age

Mozilla applauds CFPB for taking on the Data Broker Ecosystem

Mozilla Weighs in on Accountability Legislation: Public policies like PATA can help to keep the Internet in the public’s best interest.

Open Fibre Data Standard: Understanding the True Extent of the Internet

Mozilla Meetups: The Building Blocks of a Trusted Internet

The FTC and DOJ merger guidelines review is an opportunity to reset competition enforcement in digital markets

Mozilla submits comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency

European Parliament’s version of the CRA threatens cybersecurity and open source development

Mozilla weighs in on the EU Cyber Resilience Act

Enhancing trust and security on the internet – browsers are the first line of defence

Working in the open: Enhancing privacy and security in the DNS

The Van Buren decision is a strong step forward for public interest research online