NEW YORK—In the shadow of the nearby United Nations, I approached the Estonian consulate this week ready to complete what's been an eight-month journey. I waited this entire time to visit the 6th ...

Estonia will soon become the first country to offer e-residency, inviting people from around the world to apply to become an “e-Estonian” and gain the opportunity to access government services with a ...

In the four and a half years since launching its e-residency program, Estonia has spent around €8m ($9m) on the scheme but earned over €18m ($20m) from it in taxes and fees. The country has now 55,000 ...

Estonia’s tech sector is adapting fast to the risks of Russian incursions into NATO countries.

A small country located on the Baltic Sea, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland and in the vicinity of Russia, Estonia is a global reference in information technology. Independent of the Soviet Union ...

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A few years ago, I would have struggled to point out the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia on a map, and I don’t think I am alone in that. With a population of 1.3 million, Estonia only gained ...

Sitting in an armchair in the comfort of your living room, you slip an encrypted national ID card into your favorite device. You type in your PIN and instantly gain access to every public service ...

Despite Estonia's recent cybersecurity crisis, which also affected its e-residents, the number of digital identity applications received by the tiny Baltic state continues to grow. Last September, ...

Estonian citizens and overseas "e-residents" rely on digital ID cards for services like banking and online voting. Security researchers revealed the possibility of identity theft due to a security bug ...

For movie lovers of a certain age, it is hard to think of the Baltic nation of Estonia and not hear the national anthem refrain of the fictional European country Freedonia, satirized in the Marx ...