DIGITAL IDENTITY AS RISK

This report is prepared to analyze digital identity not as a neutral technological convenience, but as an autonomous source of legal, procedural and transnational risk. Its practical purpose is to show how a person’s digital profile, digital documents, credentials, behavioural traces, linked records, and digital identification and verification infrastructures begin to function as channels of admission, exclusion, suspicion, selection, compliance screening, migration control, law-enforcement attention and broader transnational pressure. For ARGA, this topic has practical significance in cases where the protection of the individual increasingly depends not only on the content of legal documents, but on how that individual’s digital trace has already been integrated into decision-making systems before any formal legal dispute begins. OHCHR expressly treats privacy in the digital age as an autonomous human-rights issue, while the European Commission confirms that by the end of 2026 Member States must make European Digital Identity Wallets available to citizens, residents and businesses, which gives the topic direct institutional urgency. (ohchr.org)