FILE PHOTO: A man uses his mobile phone while walking past a board showing currency exchange rates of the U.S. dollar, euro and British pound (top-bottom) against Russian rouble in Moscow, Russia, August 24, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Telecoms operator VEON on Tuesday launched a digital ID authentication system that Chief Executive Kaan Terzioglu said could rival those used by U.S. technology giants in simplifying mobile logins without sacrificing privacy.
The new tool allows users to log into systems like retail or banking websites using their phone numbers and one-time password authentication, rather than using separate passwords, or those attached to existing domains like Google or Facebook.
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