When did our phones become our new unique identifier?

01/08/2022 | IAPP

The widespread adoption of multifactor authentication is a welcome privacy and security development. However, a lost phone during a night out helped BigID Chief Privacy Officer Heather Federman (CIPP/US) come to the realisation that those same authenticators are now the only key to our personal, financial, social and professional accounts and all the personal data associated with them. This IAPP article discusses the pitfalls of the current identifier landscape and what future solutions could look like.

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