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As our transition to a more digital society continues, what will this look like from the individual’s perspective, and to what extent will the individual have any agency in how their digital identity is manifested?
The paper looked at identity systems that enabled predators to hound a child to suicide and facilitate gambling addiction without a responsible person to blame.
Identity ecosystems are built up over time with legacies of cultural assumption and prejudices, of old choices and narrow contexts. The root causes of these harms are untraceable, and the root causes are unaccountable.
Complete Knowledge (paper) James Austgen, Kushal Babel, Vitalik Buterin, Phil Daian, Ari Juels and Mahimna Kelkar
Powerful new technologies such as TEEs and MPC threaten to upend the classical proof-of-knowledge landscape. CK offers a way to prevent such encumbrance of secrets and restore the intuitive idea of knowledge being attributable to a single entity
US regulators will require tech giants to adopt non-proprietary identities, says Mike Engle. “VPNs will give way to identity-based perimeters for the virtual workforce” says Engle, Security Boulevard. ‘2 billion passwords were leaked in 2021 alone, and roughly 70% of breached passwords are still in use.
We have appeared in Gartner Reports apparently but it is behind a paywall. Someone posted this pick (but only one VC format puts schema formats and definitions on ledger, they also call it a Verifiable Claim - not Verifiable Credneital).
The Metadium platform is developed with the expansion of META ID and the availability of smart contracts as a top priority. The platform will provide EVM compatibility for an easy onboarding process and the smooth processing of tasks (deployment, execution, etc)
Anyone who has met Evin knows she isn't just brilliant but capable of breaking down complex subjects into fun, accessible bits, and this interview is no different.
Recently, the Baseline Core Developer Community announced on the Baseline Show the completion of a major milestone for the third Baseline Reference Implementation (BRI-3), which focuses on simplifying the implementation and use of the Baseline Protocol.
The EU is a great example where in the fullness of time the upcoming Data Act will sit beside the Data Governance Act, the GDPR, the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation, the Open Data Directive, the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act as part of the European strategy for data, not to mention EIDAS 2.0.
Predictions on insider threats, passwordless authentication, artificial intelligence, and more Few industries move as quickly as cybersecurity, broadly, and the identity and access management (IAM) segment, specifically.
DWeb
Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse John Udell - I’m no longer employed in the attention economy. I just want to hang out online with people whose words and pictures and ideas intrigue and inspire and delight me, and who might feel similarly about my words and pictures and ideas
The Decentralized Internet: A Future State will explore decentralized storage, decentralized identity, decentralized media, and the new realities these make possible. The series will explore how the premise of increasing decentralization can bring us closer to that original promise.
Thoughtful
Kind, Friendly Designs David Smith - I don’t want to make apps that are unkind. I want apps that are encouraging and build up their users. I want to make apps that don’t make you feel bad about yourself.
Layoffs are bullshit Werd.io - Layoffs do not solve what is often the underlying problem, which is often an ineffective strategy, a loss of market share, or too little revenue.
Ben says Werd.io - Speaking loudly about ethics in tech and media is more important than it's ever been. And it'll only become more important as time goes on. Use your voice - please.
supported by @kryha_io's Re-Source tech! The GBA also links to CIRPASS, an EU initiative for digital product passports for batteries (tech support by @EnergyWebX). - @GreenAltCrypto
