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This month I want to draw your attention to an insightful interview with Sujith Nair, co-founder of Beckn Protocol and Networks for Humanity. Nair was a key builder of Aadhaar and the broader India Stack, and his case for protocol-led architecture lands squarel...
Age verification should be one of the simplest use cases for privacy-enhancing digital credentials.
If the question is “are you over 18?”, the answer should not require a person to disclose their full identity.
That is the promise of selective disclosure. A person should be able to prove only what is necessary for a specific transaction, without oversharin...
The new Identity Verification Code of Practice 2026 marks an important moment for Aotearoa’s digital identity ecosystem.
Gazetted on 28 May 2026 and commencing on 1 July 2026, the Code replaces the Amended Identity Verification Code of Practice 2013. It is the first full rewrite in more than a decade and applies to reporting entities verifying the full name and date...
AI agents are beginning to move from novelty to infrastructure. They will increasingly search, transact, negotiate, book, approve, recommend and act across digital services.
That creates a fundamental trust problem: how do we know which agent we are interacting with, who it represents and what it is authorised to do?
On 23 June, the Linux Foundation announ...
Sujith Nair, co-founder of Beckn Protocol and Networks for Humanity, has a simple but powerful metaphor for digital infrastructure: forests, not gardens.
A garden needs a gardener. It is curated, controlled and reflects one person’s view of how things should be. A forest is different. It scales, sustains diversity and produces solutions its designers never imagined....