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Illustration: an identity card with every field redacted except a cryptographically signed proof that the holder is over 18

How digital identity actually helps privacy: selective disclosure and the EUDI wallet

Digital identity can increase privacy rather than erode it, if it uses the right cryptography: you prove one attribute, for example that you are over 18, without revealing your identity. What selective disclosure is, how the EUDI wallet works (mandatory across the EU and Romania by the end of 2026) and where it is not magic: SD-JWT is not unlinkability.

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Illustration: the Azure cloud stays intact, with a check mark, while a customer tenant's padlock is opened with a key stolen from outside — not a platform breach, but compromised credentials

A 3.6-million "Azure records" theft: not a Microsoft breach, but tenant credential theft

An attacker is selling 3.64 million employee records "stolen from Azure" belonging to McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS and others. But it is not a breach of the Microsoft platform: it is credential theft (password spray + MFA fatigue + infostealers) against customers' tenants. That is why Microsoft stays silent, and why push-only MFA is the weak link.

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