Identosphere 126: How Do Humans Trust? • Tokenization: Security + Exceptional UX • municipalities may need their own • Updates to Trinsic v1 and Sovrin StagingNet
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While his new book, “Learning Digital Identity,” is mostly geared toward a business and technical audience, it is replete with important insights for how we all should think about digital identity
Affinidi India team members have emerged as 2 of the 6 winning teams of the Skill-A-Thon 1.0, a hackathon aimed at promoting skills discovery and education opportunities in India
To accomplish this, our team became significant contributors in the open-source communities developing the code bases and open standards on which Protocol was built, including Hyperledger Indy, Aries, and Ursa; the Trust Over IP Foundation; the W3C, and more. During the lifespan of Kiva Protocol, the open-source community we participated in grew from about 40 contributors to 1000s. The tech from that community is being used for government digital identity work in Canada, Germany, Finland and elsewhere.
Tokenization doesn’t obfuscate data; it removes it from the interaction entirely. It replaces sensitive data with a token that represents the financial card data. If it’s stolen, it’s worthless to a hacker
By using a combination of attribute and schema changes with time-series analysis, an observer can interpret the health of datasets and pipelines, identifying risk areas that undermine policy engine execution
This video introduces Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials concepts. It presents how Microsoft Entra Verified ID works and how it is built on top of industry standards for Verifiable Credentials.
The Trust Over IP Design Principles identified the following human trust principles as headings in this essay. The principles create the fabric in which we make decisions to trust something or someone.
With automated KYC solutions integrated into their digital onboarding process, businesses can easily compare customer data against multiple reliable sources in order to obtain accurate results.
As FutureLearn describes a Micro-credential is a “Certification of learning that can accumulate into a larger credential or degree, be part of a portfolio that demonstrates individuals’ proof of learning, or have a value in itself.”
“What we’ve done is built a way to translate the trustworthiness of a passport into an equally trustworthy ICAO DTC type 1 digital credential – all without needing to store any personal data about the passenger outside the credential.”
why local municipalities may need their own digital identity schemes – including how these local schemes differ from national schemes and how they help people missed by national schemes, alongside some examples of live local identity schemes.
It provides greater clarity about what is personal data and the reasonable steps that a data control needs to take to decide whether data could identify a living individual.
“But there is no demand for personal data stores!”. This is especially the case with policy makers and investors. We think they’re wrong and this blog explains why.
KuppingerCole Analysts and data security firm ShardSecure discuss data confidentiality in the context of modern infrastructures, quantum computing, and data protection regulations. They will also discuss data resilience
Computers worldwide cannot all agree on what is true due to the speed of light, which creates a significant delay that affects things like global finance
Over 100,000 Wallets Have Used Aztec Connect [...] Aztec also open-sourced the entire codebase for Connect and encouraged community members to fork, deploy, or develop a new version of the rollup. “We’d love to see an independently-operated Aztec Connect and are ready to fund it,” it said.
Civic Now Offers Support for Ethereum & Polygon Civic - “Our integrated token-gating tool helps dApps gate access to their services by issuing a Civic Pass to their users, which may be used across chains and wallets.”
SSI allows users to control their data, enabling decentralization and data privacy in Web 3.0.
ID Not SSI
Leaked passwords exceeded 721M in 2022 SC Media “Threat actors have exposed 721.5 million credentials online last year, many of which had been exfiltrated from malware-infected third-party business apps, VentureBeat reports.”
I believe it will remain open source, but by acquiring the copyright to the code and hiring its developer to work on open web projects, Automattic is sending a signal about what it considers to be important.
Thoughtful
Anti-Racist Starter Pack h/t Ben Werdmüller - “A list of anti-racist books, articles, documentaries, podcasts, and interviews”
Qualities Of Value Wilder Team - “[after] countless hours of research and reading over the past five years, four ‘qualities of value’ have emerged. These are provenance, persistence, flexibility, and portability”
