Identosphere 125: SSI Music Video • BIPA Coming, States Warned • Protocol based Fediverse Explored • Public Review OIDC Verifiable Presentations Specification
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While the National CyberSecurity Strategy is a great place to start, it will take some time for it to come to life. U.S. federal departments and agencies, state and local governments, and private industry verticals must develop action plans,
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At CBN, we are actively developing and implementing digital ID solutions such as mobile driver’s licenses and self-sovereign identity in countries throughout the globe.
“‘You didn’t talk to anyone who works in a school, did you?’ They were not contextualized in the problem at all.” The deep expertise in the communities of educators and administrators she worked with, Cornforth saw, was in tension with the disruptive, startup-flavored creativity of the design thinking process at consultancies like IDEO.org
This is independent of the different variations within the technology stack, and more importantly is meant for the vast majority of the business? population that have never heard of different standards bodies, protocols or tech stacks, and who quite frankly don’t care and will never exert the effort to learn about them. In many cases these are the exact people who make the final investment go/no-go decision.
Applied correctly, VCs + DIDs are affordable, interoperable, and already standardized. The interoperability perks of VCs + DIDs give you the ability to work across existing systems, including distributed ledgers (DLTs) and blockchains.
The legal and regulatory framework for self-sovereign identity is still evolving, but there are several key steps that are likely to need to be taken in order for it to be implemented on a mass scale:
Two React Native mobile applications, one credential issuer server in React, four node server applications, and a JS library that they all utilize. Issue and save verifiable credentials in a holder wallet application that backs up to IPFS.
The focus on these three use cases means that OpenID4VC purposefully isn’t focused on supporting a broader set of trust tasks that other protocols such as DIDComm aim to support.
DIF Monthly #32 Identity Foundation - Lots of good stuff about the working group activity ongoing.
Findynet Cooperative strengthens its organisation by appointing Samuel Rinnetmäki as Chief Technology Officer and Santtu Pulli as Head of Ecosystem and Offering.
security protections multiply when these digital artifacts are combined with a verifiable data registry. Additionally, verifiable credentials allow for selective disclosure
The University of Maine System demonstrates that this is an effective approach even within higher-education institutions. Its verified micro-credential program [evercred] allows students to gain competency in skills today’s workforce seeks.
You can imagine Open Badges as the roads, bridges, and buildings that make up the infrastructure of a city. They provide a way for individuals to earn recognition and for this recognition to be displayed and shared across different platforms and contexts.
The primary ways of implementing access control in modern applications are (1) access control lists (ACLs), (2) role-based access control (RBAC), and (3) attribute-based access control (ABAC).
So what is BIPA? It is the Biometric Information Privacy Act that Illinois passed several years ago requiring any capturing of a biometric information in a template and in samples must get the subjects explicit consent.
However something very concerning – throughout the discussion there was repeated conflation of biometrics with digital ID. This conflation is a problem to have the type of real discussion we need to have about both but to not conflate them.
I just learned about a 2021 GAO report. It says that This means it is likely that more agencies are using FRT for more reasons. This report seems relevant because for the third time legislation is being put forward to do a Federal Facial Recognition Ban just this week.
The article concludes with a discussion of technical aspects as well as potential obstacles and constraints to the implementation of decentralized identification in the context of the Internet of Things.
Indicio recently announced the launch of Indicio Proven™ Finance, an off-the-shelf solution for customer authentication, data sharing, and reusable KYC in financial services and payments. Learn what new functionality
evercred empowers individual physicians to be the direct primary source of their identity and credentials, making the onboarding process faster, more efficient, and less expensive for healthcare providers
myDid - a customizable wallet solution allowing your users to share their Identity and easily exchange Community Badges
12id - primarily consists of a user-friendly 12iD mobile Application for End-users, a comprehensive Admin Panel to be in control of the identities, and an Identity Verifier service that uses a private ledger to store strictly non-personal information to make data validation possible
Neoke - building a travel ecosystem that harnesses the power of digital ID.
ad-driven models have their own kind of corrupting influence. I think that’s why a lot of social media ends up toxic — because people are focused on engagement, rather than substance.
Microsoft, who had its own version of the protocol, and Netscape agreed to hand over the project to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and make it an open standard.
We all know the problem. When we sign up for an online service, we quickly click Agree on the Terms of Service window without really knowing what that entails.
