Countries implementing digital ID programs, such as Nigeria and Kenya, have experienced data breaches, raising fears about how well governments can protect sensitive personal information.

India’s Aadhaar card, now issued to more than 1 billion people, is the world’s biggest such digital identification system, rolled out initially 2009. Aadhaar uses a 12-digit identification number, and ...

For most of the human history, the oceans represented something larger than any power could control. It was unfathomable and beyond conquest—wild, uncontained, and governed by forces of nature rather ...