The Southeast Asia Public Policy Institute has published a report exploring how emerging layers of digital trust—particularly Digital ID and privacy-preserving Proof of Human (PoH) technologies—can help address the growing challenge of scams.
“Finally, PoH must be embedded within a trust and safety framework. Verifying that a user is human does not guarantee that the user’s intentions are safe. Many of the most harmful scams in APAC—such as investment fraud, impersonation scams, and long-form social-engineering schemes—are perpetrated by real human operators. This is why PoH should complement, rather than substitute, other safety signals. Applying frameworks such as ISO/IEC 25389 (the Safe Framework) helps ensure that PoH is used appropriately:
- with clear implementation guidance to avoid overreliance.
- as a layered defense against automation and scale attacks;
- alongside behavioral and reputational signals that detect human-driven threats”