A recent advisory published by cybersecurity vendor Resecurity exposes a trend now unfolding on the dark web: more and more biometric-based stolen data is ending up in this corner of the Internet.
These revelations, which describe the increase in such activity as “significant”, highlight the case of Singapore, including its SingPass scheme.
At the same time, they confirm that the fears of digital identification and age verification push to become a privacy nightmare sooner or later.
In Singapore, every citizen and resident has a SingPass (Singapore Personal Access) digital ID account, which the city-state's authorities refer to as their “trusted digital identity,” not to mention a “practice “.