Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure, convenience risks becoming a new form of dependency. This article analyses the hidden geopolitical costs of outsourced technology and ask a defining question: who truly controls the digital Zimbabwean?
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