Identosphere 122: Regi-Trust • Data Primer for Policy Makers • Digital Provenance Tools • Cross-border Paperless Trade Toolkit •
Your weekly digest of the latest news, events, and development related to the use of open standards to eliminate centralized control over digital identification
Digital TRUST Infrastructure for Discovery and Validation (Regi-TRUST) is an infrastructure project sponsored and hosted at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The project is intended to develop and provide a suite of tools to enable discovery and validation of trusted services by leveraging existing Internet infrastructures of the Domain Name System (DNS) and its security extensions.
This article will provide a comprehensive yet simple introduction to DID:WEB and the W3C Verifiable Credentials. It will also comes with code snippets and fully working examples in Javascript using the Decentralized Identity libraries.
We’re excited to announce our Trailblazers’ Challenge to encourage and reward those who are helping to bootstrap momentum by engaging as many individuals as possible to download a velocity career wallet and claim career and education credentials. The reward is sponsored by Velocity Career Labs, Inc.
“This capital infusion will further support our efforts to bring the most advanced, modern, comprehensive standard for privacy and security to consumers – for free,” said Jeffrey Schwartz, Founder and CEO of Dentity.
AN ACT relating to digital assets; prohibiting the compelled production of a private key that relates to a digital asset, digital identity or other interest or right except as specified; providing a definition; repealing a definition; and providing for an effective date.
These eternal ledgers are not designed for personal privacy, and for such use, they are not compliant with privacy regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation and California Consumer Privacy Act.
We need a much better understanding of where personal data’s opportunities lie, and how to unlock this potential. That is what our White Paper and blog series has done
moving into deployment, and expected to grow toward ubiquity on the same slope as Aadhaar, the government ID now held by 1.35 billion people
Beckn Protocol FAQ - a set of specifications consisting of APIs, data models, reference architecture, transaction mechanisms, and global standards that when adopted by digital platforms, enable the creation of decentralized networks.
The Protected Virtual Meeting service is built on Microsoft (MS) Entra Verified ID and the IdRamp Virtual Meeting Cyber Security-mesh. […] The solution can protect any virtual meeting or Webcast provider including MS Teams, Cisco WebEx, Zoom, On24, Global Meet and many more.
The concept of taking something that’s been used, stripping it down to its components, reusing what you can and melting down the rest for chemicals as a means of efficiently preventing waste is bad engineering, at best. The whole idea of recycling is built on a fundamental falsehood
When you bind identity to claims [about performance, quality of goods/services, etc.] you codify an incentive to meet those obligations + a defense of legitimacy.
we share developer demos and tips on how to get started with the CAI's free open-source tools, which activate an open industry standard for content authenticity and provenance
in partnership with MEF ([AAIS] and many consortia to come!), mobiNET is evolving into the Integrated Trust Network (ITN). mobiNET/ITN is a member-owned and operated protocol-agnostic digital infrastructure that provides the core trust services of governance, authority, identity, and assurance.
At Ubisecure we delivered such a use case over a decade ago that reduced costs for the Tax Office in Finland by 99%. Despite an arguably limited adoption in other jurisdictions, I think we are now at a point where the importance of organisation identity is finally receiving the mainstream recognition it deserves.
Page 28: The United States Department of Homeland Security, for example, is funding the development of DID-based identity credentials as a standard that the United States Customs and Border Protection service can use for supply chain verification.
tokens have a long history in identity and access management. They are the keystone of authorization in many apps, primarily through the issuance of JSON web tokens.
streamlining the identity process across a single user-operated platform, states can provide stronger protection against cyberattacks targeting personal information and reduce the risk of mass exposure of citizen data
Using a passkey allows an individual to gain access to an account by approving the login on an external device, with no password required. [...] From a safety standpoint, passkeys are much more secure than passwords for a number of reasons.
But does it do anything? PC317 operational guidance/vision “should not delve into detail about ‘how to’, or be prescriptive or restrictive on proving or providing evidence of privacy by design”
This standard represents the first set of preventative international guidelines for assuring that consumer privacy is embedded into the design of a product or service
the company requires verification with a government ID and biometric info to activate the feature. And if someone gets caught using them to stalk, Tile’s terms and conditions will slap them with a $1 million penalty.
