Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
Preface｜ The Singapore Land Authority recently disclosed that a cloud-based development and testing environment managed by IBM was accessed without authorization, exposing the names, NRIC numbers, and then-current property addresses of about 70,000 people. The incident sparked public discussion about digital government, outsourced systems, and the protection of identity data. Scholar Hu Yilin believes that this event should not be understood simply as a failure of Singapore’s digitalization; on the contrary, Singapore’s recent move to restrict the use of NRIC is worthy of affirmation. What really deserves discussion is the next generation of digital identity systems: in the future, identity verification should no longer rely on a single global number…
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