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# Media Coverage
* [Verifiable Credentials go mainstream at Identiverse 2022](https://www.biometricupdate.com/202206/verifiable-credentials-go-mainstream-at-identiverse-2022) Biometric Update
Verifiable Credentials was a breakthrough topic and its clearly on the path to mainstream adoption. Main sessions by Microsoft and Avast showcased their application of VCs in the IAM landscape, showing VCs arent the future anymorethey are the present.
* [Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/huge-data-leak-shatters-lie-innocent-need-not-fear-surveillance)
Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time.
Such are the capabilities of Pegasus, the spyware manufactured by NSO Group, the Israeli purveyor of weapons of mass surveillance.
* [IATA app (by Evernym) makes CNN Travel](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/iata-travel-pass/index.html)
"Governments decide the requirements to travel; airlines and passengers need to comply," says the IATA on its website, emphasizing that the airline body is not itself mandating that passengers must have a Covid-19 vaccine in order to travel.
* [Media Mention: MIT Technology Review](https://identitywoman.net/media-mention-mit-technology-review/) Kaliya Young
I was quoted in the article in MIT Technology Review on April 6, 2022, “Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users.”