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International Identity Day: The need for Inclusion by Design

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September 16 is International Identity Day – a commemoration of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 which calls for the provision of legal identity for all by 2030.

On this day, you will see many corporations calling out their progress in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). These include their DEI mission statement, the number of Employee Resource Groups they have, the increase in diversity percentages they are aiming for in the near future and other such commitment metrics. Entrust could easily highlight all these initiatives as well. But while these efforts are extremely important, should be tracked, measured, and improved upon and is somewhat linked to the notion of “identity” – is that really the most important aspect of this day?

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Around the world, according to McKinsey & Company, nearly one billion people have no form of legal ID. That means they have no birth certificate, driver’s license, National ID, or passport – no legal way to interact with their own government for services or aid. Without legal identification, millions are potentially denied access to education, financial services, health care, the recognized labor market, or even the ability to secure property. Nearly 1 in every 8 people do not legally exist in today’s world.

The Role of Government

Governments, the issuers of identity documents, have a large role to play to resolve this global inequality. Accessibility for all government services requires that one be recognized and validated as a citizen – which is not as easy as it might seem. Geographic expanse, differences in socio-economic rates within the population, aging infrastructure, lack of resources, political impacts and competing budgetary priorities can all pose a hinderance to any identity issuance initiative for a government. Multiple forms of identity for every citizen can be very complicated to manage as well.

Recently governments have been looking towards digital identity to help solve some of these challenging issues. A number of countries that have either implemented digital identity systems or are working towards that goal including Estonia, Germany, the U.K., Canada, Australia, the EU, and many more.

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What Features and Design Will a 6th-Generation Fighter Have

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  • Only the US, Russia, and China have designed and built fifth-generation fighters.
  • Now they and several other countries are working on 6th-generation fighters.
  • They aren’t expected to arrive until the 2030s, and they’re being designed with future wars in mind.

What exactly is a 6th generation fighter? Fifth-generation fighters are so advanced — and so expensive — that just three nations have designed and built models: the United States, Russia, and China.

The technology — stealth, supercruise, supermaneuverability, interconnectivity — is still cutting edge. Yet, the great powers are already looking ahead, as great powers tend to do, competing with each other, and contemplating the 6th generation of fighter technology.

Sixth-generation fighters exist only in concept. Several countries are working on 6th-generation fighters — some of which have never even created a fifth-generation fighter — including the US, Russia, China, Japan, the UK, and France.

No one is close yet to debuting a 6th-generation fighter; the going expectation is that the next generation won’t debut until the 2030s.

6th generation fighter: designing aircraft for future conflicts

Future Combat Air System fighter jet

A full-scale model of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) presented by Dassault Aviation at the 53rd International Paris Air Show on June 17, 2019.

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Privacy by Design laws will kill your data pipelines

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A car is totaled when the cost to repair it exceeds its total value. By that logic, Privacy by Design legislation could soon be totaling data pipelines at some of the most powerful tech companies.

Those pipelines were developed well before the advent of more robust user privacy laws, such as the European Union’s GDPR (2018) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (2020). Their foundational architectures were therefore designed without certain privacy-preserving principals in mind, including k-anonymity and differential privacy.

But the problem extends way beyond trying to layer privacy mechanisms on top of existing algorithms. Data pipelines have become so complex and unwieldy that companies might not even know whether they are complying with regulations. As Meta engineers put it in a leaked internal document: “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments.”

(When we asked Meta for comment, a spokesperson referred us to the company’s original response to Motherboard about the leaked document, which said, in part: “The document was never intended to capture all of the processes we have in place to comply with privacy regulations around the world or to fully represent how our data practices and controls work.”)

As governments increasingly embrace Privacy by Design (PbD) legislation, tech companies face a choice: either start from scratch or try to fix data pipelines that are old, extraordinarily complex and already non-compliant. Some computer science researchers say a fresh start is the only way to go. But for tech companies, starting over would require engineers to roll out critical data infrastructure changes without disrupting day-to-day operations — a task that’s easier said than done.

‘Open borders’ won’t cut it

Motherboard published the leaked internal document, written by Meta engineers in 2021, at the end of April. In it, an engineering team recommended data architecture changes that would help Meta comply with a wave of governments embracing the “consent regime,” one of the core principles of PbD. India,…

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Level1 News February 8 2022: Crouching China, Sunken Airplane

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