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Upcoming

• [One Day!] Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop virtual unConference 3/16 [Registration]

  • Biometrics in Airports? Senators call for a ban IdentityWoman (Lets discuss at Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop ^^^)

• New unConference for the Fediverse and future of social media: FediForum Johannes Ernst, Kaliya, Jennifer Holmes 3/29-30 (fediforum.org)

• Webinar on European data sovereignty Innopay 3/22

• FediForum unConference 3/29-30 virtual

• Internet Identity Workshop 4/18-20, Mountain View, CA

• MeetUp Holland FinTech: The Future of Banking Innopay 4/13 Rabobank, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Heroes of Data Privacy – the practise-oriented data privacy conference in Vienna LionsGate 5/24 Vienna, Austria

• Digital Identity unConference Europe 6/7-9 Zurich ← Registration open

• eIDAS 2.0 l New Opportunities in Digital Identity INNOPAY 4/27

Fun

[video] IETF Celebrates The Standards LIVE at Demuxed '22

Explainer

• Verifiable Credentials potentially improves digital identity onboarding and identity verification  Tumy Tech

• [Long Video] Understanding and Using Verifiable Credentials John Savill's Technical Training

• Why Doesn't This [SSI] Exist Already? Phil Windley - Maybe a year from now. Maybe a decade. No one can say. But it's coming. Plan and work accordingly.

• Survival of the fittest: who will win the war of wallets? Cyber News “Standards are great, but you must support them”

Making Digital Product Passports Work Humanizing the Singularity

The Gartner report on the top trends impacting manufacturing for 2023 predicts that 50 percent of the top ten consumer goods manufacturers will have introduced digital product passports (DPP) for at least one of their product categories by 2027, and the EU is intending to require DPPs for a wide range of products by 2024.

Call for Submissions

• Kim Cameron Awards Now Open for Submissions OpenID Foundation

Government

Digital ID architectures matter. So does the way we talk about them Identity Woman

Look there is a direct link between the issuing authority and the TSA in the Relying party role – the little arrow says Key/Cert Exchange but is the public going to read that? Or are they going to think there is a connection to the database.

[Germany] Digital Identity Index 2023: Future of Digital ID in Germany IDnow 

Germans want more digital services but ignorance and security concerns remain. 

[logistics] eDATA Verifiable Credentials for Cross Border Trade UNECE Report

The role of regulators in this model is to provide trust anchors. For example, a national trademarks office can issue digital proofs that an identified producer is indeed the owner of a trademark, allowing that producer to attach verifiable authenticity claims to their exported products.

[Whitepaper] Is It Rude to Ask Your Age? Identity Praxis

Worldwide, policymakers, in response to measurable threats and harms to children online and due to a desire to make the Internet safer for children, are updating existing and issuing new age verification and assurance regulations. Age verification is the practice of verifying an individual’s age

Bhutan Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, 7, country’s first digital citizen WHO News

His Royal Highness Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck became Bhutan’s first digital citizen on February 21 by launching Bhutan’s national digital identity. Beyond the launch of a game-changing national priority, the gesture is deeply symbolic in the context of a nation in transformation.

[Thread] Switzerland is currently working hard to prepare introduction of Self Sovereign Identity for its electronic identity GGreve

Every couple of weeks there are meetings, online or hybrid, to inform about the status of the work, and to consult with public groups, companies, and interested parties. Everything transparent and documented. [GitHub]

Tony Blair’s National Purpose

Tony Blair Institute calls for single digital IDs UK Authority

support for a single digital identity will have an element of controversy given Blair’s plan during his time in office for a national identity card that would have had similarities in its role. This attracted strong opposition from privacy activists and was dropped when the Coalition Government came to power in 2010.

OIX contests idea of government run digital IDs UK Authority

"In our view, government should focus on issuing user managed ID proofs into certified private sector smart digital IDs, or wallets, Mothershaw said. “This will allow the private sector to provide users innovative smart digital ID services that blend trusted ID proofs from government, with public and private sector credentials."  

[notssi] IEEE P2958 – Identity of Things Working Group

It is part of a policy paper from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, titled A New National Purpose, to which former Conservative Party leader William Hague has also made a contribution

Developer Resources

Microsoft Entra Verified ID SDK: Developer Resources Hyperonomy

Currently under evaluation as the primary identity system for Web 7.0: Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable

Onboarding in ASP.NET Core with Azure AD Temporary Access Pass and Microsoft Graph Damien Bod

The article looks at onboarding different Azure AD users with a temporary access pass (TAP) and some type of passwordless authentication. An ASP.NET Core application is used to create the Azure AD member users which can then use a TAP to setup the account

[Tweet] SSI Snap is a MetaMask Snap [extension] lets anyone manage their DIDs and VCs Blockchain Lab UM [gif]

It’s easy to lose track of your data if you cannot visualize it anywhere. That’s why we created SSI Snap Official dApp — a platform for configuring SSI Snap, visualizing your data, and testing different things [post]

Using Datasette in GitHub Codespaces Simon Willison

A new Datasette tutorial showing how it can be run inside GitHub Codespaces - GitHub's browser-based development environments - in order to explore and analyze data. I've been using Codespaces to run tutorials recently and it's absolutely fantastic, because it puts every tutorial attendee on a level playing field with respect to their development environments

DID:Day

• I am so overjoyed that we get to full-stack collaborate, from smart contracts to stages at conferences! Provenauthority - Building decentralized identity together & opening people’s imaginations to the future

• DID:day line up SpruceID - +Video of all Speakers - 3hours

[Literature] [(SSI) Decentralized ID] Trust and Interoperability in the Metaverse Siem Ghirmai, Daniel Mebrahtom, Moayad Aloqaily, Mohsen Guizani, Merouane Debbah [some interesting ideas]

They propose that a user would hold a specific NFT that is immutable and nontransferable to other wallets, and this would be the unique identifier and would be hard to impersonate

[Tweet] DID sign-in should be a unified (regardless of religious belief) public good Crabbylions - this gives off the same energy, and I don't like the direction.

Spruce at ETHDenver 2023 SpruceID

At did:day, we’ll be joined by speakers representing other leaders in the space–including Disco, Ceramic, ENS, Gitcoin Passport, PolygonID, Unlock, Lit Protocol, CyberConnect, and Lens–to bring together visionaries who are building the foundations to turn decentralized identity into a reality.

Plant a Tree and Control Your Data with SSX SpruceID

Sign-In with Ethereum, obtain various credentials that are saved and encrypted in an off-chain data vault, and authorize access to that data vault to present those credentials.

Web3 identity off-chain, on-chain, and both Justyna Solange

With @MashaHealy @provenauthority of @discoxyz  @kelvinfichter of @OPLabsPBC & @KamesGeraghty of @district_labs

Identity not SSI 

Self-managed Versus Service-based SSO Ping - “Even if one user’s workflow requires access to just 20 of these applications, logging in before accessing each app can be a real hassle”

Passkey Manager Coming to Android Dashlane

This developer preview contains Android changes that enable third-party applications to manage passkeys. Passkeys are phishing-resistant credentials based on FIDO standards and are the future of online authentication, designed as a more secure and user-friendly replacement for passwords.

Regular Round-Up from our Working Groups Kantara

• Advanced Notice & Consent Receipt WG

• Identity Assurance Work Group

Biometric Exit – its creepy Identity Woman

I work on digital identity and this described below experience really highlighted the problem with much of the Biometrics industry and governments who use the technology – no explanation of what is actually happening or how a system got the template of my face. It re-affirmed for me the need for the Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop

Tangential

[not cryptographic] Trust in 2023 painted by the Edelman Barometer Ultimatrust - “to measure the current level of trust around the world”

Money Not Payments

• Bangladesh’s first and only unicorn used “human ATMs” to promote financial inclusion restofworld - “services accessible with the most basic mobile phones and a network of agents”

• The Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks SwanBitcoin - “Recent decades have been characterized primarily by closed systems, both financially and online.”

Web3ID

• [tweet] blockchain crowd are human ostriches who largely reject trying to learn/understand anything about the technology areas of identity, distributed systems, and cryptography CSUWildcat - “rake-steppers seem to actually enjoy repeating mistakes”

• [tweet] crypto folks aren't tuned in enough to the power struggles over web standards... much less the DID/VC prior art By Caballero - It probably won't surprise you to hear that debates about "the Nascar problem" (and how DIDs could help) predate ethereum, since the early days of OIDC

• [top ten] Why Decentralized Identity Matters on Web3 and Blockchain Wallets mingleland

• [French-Swiss] MyDiD specializes in Web3 ID and certification communities. BeinCrypto ANN CEO: Bastien Ebalard - “a professor at the renowned Kedge Business School located in the heart of the Calanques National Parc, and author of the “Blockchain Consultant” and “Blockchain Project Manager” programs at the Alyra blockchain school”

• [tools][tweet] 4 tools have been released. PolygonID Identity Infrastructure PolygonID

• Decentralized Identity in the Crypto Market Esther Kim, nonce Classic - Almost every major crypto VC has a DID project in their portfolio, and trend reading reports have not failed to highlight the sector.

• [podcast] Beyond the Login with Rocco of Spruce Mempool, XMTP Labs

• Attest to anything and everything EthAttest - EAS works with only two smart contracts. One to register an attestation schema, and another to make attestations on Schemas. Elegantly simple. Limitless possibility.

Fediverse

• [Fediverse] Bluesky Private Beta Update - to serve as a reference client for developers to learn how to build on atproto, as well as a landing place for users to see how a decentralized social app can be pleasant to use, customizable, performant, and safe

• Mapping people and tags on Mastodon Jon Udell - I showed how to use Steampipe to map Mastodon network neighborhoods.

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