The Alicem app: a controversial digital authentication system (I'm Tech/The Conversation)
03 February 2021
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Some digital innovations, although considered to be of general interest, are met with distrust. A responsible innovation approach could anticipate and prevent such confidence issues. “Alicem” is a case in point.
Alicem is a smartphone app developed by the State to offer the French people a national identity solution for online administrative procedures. It uses face recognition as a technological solution to activate a user account and allow the person to prove their digital identity in a secure way.
By Laura Draetta, associate professor in sociology and Valérie Fernandez, professor in digital economics, holders of the Chair of Responsibility for Digital Identity at Télécom Paris.
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