When all is said and done, when the pandemic is over, when we emerge on the other side of this, it’s safe to say that who we are – no matter where we live – will have changed a bit.
So will the ways in which we prove we are who we say we are.
In an interview with Karen Webster, Philipp Pointner, chief product officer at Jumio, said the coronavirus may hasten a shift from paper and plastic documents toward digital ID verification.
The conversation came against a backdrop where Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has been readying a biometric component for digital identities that, according to reports, will be ready for public testing by mid-year.
Drill down a bit, he said, and the “e-IDs” that governments are starting to issue, as have been seen in Australia, are serving as a springboard of sorts, gaining traction across a few use cases.
“And then,” Pointner told Webster, “you have the overarching, strategic developments of digital identities that can be interoperable.”