Identity Intelligence covers digital identity, biometric authentication and cybersecurity vendors, often profiling individual companies such as infostealer intelligence providers and passwordless authentication firms. Readers get vendor overviews and market framing, though the sampled issues lean on company descriptions and promotional language.
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Rebecca Williams writes essays and reports on how information systems and technology shape power, covering digital ID, surveillance, tech policy and resistance to big tech. Readers get sociotechnical analysis informed by her federal government experience, plus links to her policy reports and advocacy resources.
New Design Congress publishes long-form research reports and essays on the political and social consequences of digital technology, including digital identity, technocratic authoritarianism and digital memory. Readers get critical, well-sourced analysis aimed at civil society, technologists and researchers.
Essays on digital identity that argue for moving beyond self-sovereign and individual-centric models toward ecological, relational approaches. Issues include critiques of reusable KYC, an industry paper on human-centric digital identity, and the Holochain project.
Long-form essays arguing that the web conflates access with authority, leaving credentials, payments and intermediaries structurally insecure and costly, especially now that AI has collapsed the cost of attacks. Issues pair full essays with executive summaries and short versions, drawing on technical detail, history and economic argument.
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