{"id":50402,"date":"2025-12-19T06:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-arguments-for-and-against-digital-identification\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:04:42","slug":"the-arguments-for-and-against-digital-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-arguments-for-and-against-digital-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"The arguments for and against digital identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, I\u2019ve been among the fintech influencers arguing for a digital identity system. Most people reply that they don\u2019t want one. Even an anonymous encrypted one. They fear that governments will find ways to track and trace them, and so it does not work. Their fears are slightly irrational as, if you use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2025\/12\/the-arguments-for-and-against-digital-identification\/\">The arguments for and against digital identification<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, I\u2019ve been among the fintech influencers arguing for a digital identity system. Most people reply that they don\u2019t want one. Even an anonymous encrypted one. They fear that governments will find ways to track and trace them, and so it does not work. Their fears are slightly irrational as, if you use&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}