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On one end of the world, we have a billion people who do not have any registered identity or bank account. On the other end, there are billions of people registered with multiple digital identities, who are having their personal information and privacy being invaded on a daily basis. The objective of this paper is to explore opportunities in addressing both problems through the application of blockchain-based identity management. A systematic review is conducted, and 53 papers are summarised and analysed. It discusses how blockchain technology could process sensitive and large identity dataset among different domains.

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Yang, X., Chan, J. (2021). Blockchain and Identity Management. In: Cong Vinh, P., Rakib, A. (eds) Context-Aware Systems and Applications. ICCASA 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 409. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93179-7_15

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