Lionel Eddy
Privacy & Digital Governance
Lionel Eddy is an author, journalist and digital-rights commentator specialising in biometrics, digital identification systems and state surveillance technologies. His work examines facial recognition, CBDCs, smart-city infrastructures and the civil-liberty implications of digital governance. As Privacy & Digital Governance Correspondent for The European, he writes on privacy, biometric policy, government digital ID proposals and the societal impact of emerging identification technologies.
Could Europe’s age verification app put citizens’ personal data at risk?
Lionel Eddy warns Europe’s age verification app could normalise digital identity checks while raising unresolved privacy and cybersecurity concerns.
Is Europe sleepwalking into identity-linked internet access?
Europe’s expanding digital identity infrastructure is raising concerns about privacy, anonymity and online participation.
Facial recognition is leaving the US border — and we should be concerned
Facial recognition once limited to US borders is expanding into everyday policing, raising privacy and oversight concerns.
The digital euro is coming — and Europe should be afraid of what comes with it
The digital euro risks weakening privacy, distorting banking, and giving governments unprecedented control over everyday economic life.
