New Zealand’s central bank has opened a consultation on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and a group of academics is warning that its links to […]

China Mobile, the country’s state-owned telecommunications company, has proposed a “Digital Identity System” for the so-called ‘metaverse’ in negotiations with the United Nations’ International Telecommunications […]

Hong Kong officials are playing down the presence of face biometrics capabilities in the state’s contact tracing app after they were exposed by FactWire, a […]