Identosphere 180: SSI vs SIM Swap • NIST Digital ID Mapping • Collab: DIF & Kuppinger Cole • Improving Digital Identity Act
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Upcoming
Annual Privacy Forum 2024 ENISA. Submissions due 04/15
[California] Internet Identity Workshop #38 04/16-18: Sponsorships Still Available! ← Buy us lunch :)
OpenID Foundation Hybrid Workshop at Google 2024-04-15
[Las Vegas] Identiverse 05/28-31 (Kaliya is Speaking)
[Berlin] EIC: Digital ID, Web3, and Metaverses EICC 06/4-7 (Kaliya is Speaking)
[Portugal] Open Identity Summit 2024: Research, Experience and Innovation 06/20-21
[Switzerland] Digital Identity unConference Europe 06/18-20 [Sponsorships Available]
[ARES Conference] International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities Deadline 05/08 Event 07/30-08/02
[South Africa] DID UnConf: Africa 09/25-27 registration opens soon
Hiring
Organization
Building a Minimum Viable Community of Practice (MVCoP) 2024-04 Laura Hilliger, We Are Open Coop
Let’s start with the value of a Community of Practice. Communities of Practice (CoPs) are important for people to network, share knowledge, and learn from each other. They play a vital role in supporting lifelong learning and helping people level up throughout their careers.
DIF and KuppingerCole announce collaboration 2024-04-02 Decentralized Identity Foundation
Together, we aim to empower organizations to embrace decentralized identity technologies confidently and securely, driving innovation and fostering trust in the digital age - Martin Kuppinger
DIF Newsletter #38 2024-03-20 Decentralized Identity Foundation
We're excited to formally welcome China SIG to the Decentralized Identity Foundation, marking a key step toward global adoption of decentralized identity to enable secure foundations for next-generation architectures. See Open Groups, below, for details of how to join the China SIG meeting on 17 April.
Hyperledger Aries: An Epicenter for Decentralized Digital Identity Collaboration and Innovation Hyperledger Foundation
Hyperledger Aries continues to add support enabling the use of capabilities central to other communities, such as AnonCreds verifiable credentials using the W3C Verifiable Credential Data Model (VCDM) format, OpenID4VCs, SD-JWTs and so on.
Standards Development
Microsoft Entra Verified ID-supported standards 2024-04-04 Microsoft
EU-US TTC WG-1 Digital Identity Mapping Exercise Report 2023-12-22 NIST [Report]
Released today, the jointly authored EU-US TTC WG-1 Digital Identity Mapping Exercise Report provides the preliminary results of an initial mapping centered on the definitions, assurance levels, and references to international standards included across Revision 3 of the NIST Digital Identity Guidelines (Special Publication 800-63, Revision 3) and European Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market.
Farewell from Fission 2024-04 Fission
Unfortunately, we have not been able to find further venture fundraising that is a match for us. …
The majority of Fission’s code is available under open source licenses.
TOIP Requesting Comments
Implementers draft of Trust Registry Protocol Specification v2.0 2024-04-03 TrustoverIP
The Trust Registry Task Force (TRTF) at the Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation has released a new version of its ToIP Trust Registry Protocol Specification as an Implementers Draft. This draft aims to elicit open public feedback from implementers of any type of online registry service or client software. Instructions for providing feedback are at the end of this post.
NEW ISSUER GOVERNANCE REQUIREMENTS GUIDE FOR VCs – PUBLIC COMMENT NEEDED 2024-04-02 TrustoverIP
Issuer Requirements Guide for Governance Frameworks of Verifiable Credentials (PDF) and is soliciting public comment using our public review process and this GitHub link. While many schemes in the US, UK and Canada have focused on elements of identity credential issuance and verification, this is the first effort to define standard requirements for issuers of verifiable credential to ensure that their processes are transparent and consistent and meet the needs of relying parties and ecosystem governing bodies.
Policy
[Improving Digital Identity Act] Digital Identity: Blockchain Solutions and How It Could Work in the Real World 2023-06-25 Nasdaq
‘Improving Digital Identity Act’, which will soon move to the full Senate for debate. If the bill passes, an Improving Digital Identity Task Force would be established [...] to ensure users’ data privacy and security and would implement emerging technologies, such as blockchain, and possibly integrate artificial intelligence (AI) or biometric technology, the sub-committee on Innovation, Data and Commerce might be involved as well.
Road to EIC: Leveraging Reusable Identities in Your Organization Kuppinger Cole
(Match IT) Act of 2024 would “establish the patient match rate as a clinical quality measurement, creating standards by which providers identify patients with their services and information.” The act would define “patient match rate” and set a standard match rate of 99.9 percent – a degree of accuracy that would likely mean issuing digital IDs.
European
Learn all about the eIDAS 2.0 regulation and how the European Digital Identity Wallet will change business forever 2024-03-14 Truvity
The primary objective of the original eIDAS regulation was to instill confidence in electronic interactions by ensuring that electronic transactions carried the same legal standing as their paper-based counterparts.
French Airports Push EU for Entry/Exit System Launch Delay 2024-03-29 Schengen Visa Info
French airport executives are urging the European Union to postpone the implementation of the Entry/Exit System (EES) until the first quarter of 2025. Currently scheduled to come into force on November 6, 2024, the EES mandates the collection of fingerprints and photographs from non-EU travelers, creating a biometric profile to replace traditional passport stamping.
Thales to Deliver Biometric Border Screening Tech for Spain’s EES Project 2022-06-21 Find Biometrics
Use Cases
Launch event for NFID goes deep on self-sovereign identity 2024-04 Biometric Update
“We are here to provide governance for the NFID tech stack for the security industry, and allow a way for everyone to kind of build on top of this utility in a safe, secure, private way,” says Zachary Klares of PDQ, a smart lock manufacturer and founding member of the NFID Foundation, in outlining the organization’s goals.
The Evolving Landscape of Non-Human Identity 2024-04-05 Spherical Cow Consulting
I’ve recently started to explore the world that is non-human identity. Coming out of IETF 119, where some of the best (and most terrifying) hallway conversations were about physical and software supply chains, I realized this was a space that didn’t look like what I’d experienced early in my digital identity career.
Telecom body calls for SSI adoption to cut SIM swap attacks Biometric Update
A 25-page report on the topic from ATIS argues that “SSI not only addresses the core vulnerabilities of current identity verification systems, but it also gives users cryptographic proof of their identity and ownership of their telephone numbers. By shifting the paradigm from centralized to user-centric, decentralized management, SSI stands as a pillar of resilience against the growing tide of telecom-related fraud.”
Self-Sovereign Identity's Role in Redefining Global Supply Chains 2024-04-01 Umar Jan, Cardano
The integration of Self-Sovereign Identity into enterprise supply chains is a critical endeavour for forward-thinking leaders aiming to drive innovation and secure a competitive edge in the marketplace. Recognizing SSI as a foundational technology for building resilient, transparent, and ethical supply chains is paramount for any enterprise looking to thrive in the digital age.
Wallets
[LinkedIn] Smart And Smarter Wallets 2024-04-04 David Birch
I think we are indeed heading [a world of smart wallets]. By this I mean wallets with associated intelligent agents to take care of transactions that are too boring (eg, paying for car parking) or too baffling (eg, deciding whether to put spare money into a tax-efficient cash savings account or one based on equities) for most of us to deal with.
[Podcast] Empowerment Tech: Wallets, Data Vaults and Personal Agents (with Jamie Smith) Northern Block
Understanding the alignment of incentives between businesses and customers
Exploring the role of regulators in promoting empowerment tech
Uncovering the potential of Open Banking and Open Finance
Envisioning the future of personal AI agents and their impact on customer experiences
Organizational ID
[Linkedin] Empowering Workforce Data Management: Accenture's Verifiable Credentials Initiative Colin Strasburg, Accenture
We have recently achieved two critical milestones on our journey to enable this mission: - Built and successfully deployed a solution that allowed Accenture to issue verifiable credentials to its employees’ digital wallets - Enhanced that solution to enable Accenture to verify credentials from a digital wallet and route the verifiable data from those credentials into an ERP/HCM system (in this case Workday)
Privacy
Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation 2024-03-27 Rest of World
In the past month, Indian authorities used the technology to identify people who participated in farmers’ protests, threatening to cancel their passports. A Russian civil society group believes Moscow police used the technology to track down people who attended opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s funeral.
FTC: Impersonation scam losses exceed $1.1B 2024-04-02 SC Media
Nearly 500,000 impersonation incidents were reported in 2023, most of which involved business impersonation scams, but the growing prevalence of multiple organization spoofing in a single scam campaign has complicated the distinction between business and government impersonation scams, according to a report from the FTC.
Decentralized Web
Causal Islands: LA Community Edition Fission 2024-04
As well as planned talks, we had facilitated discussions on Commons Networks, Decentralized Social, and AI, Truth, & Identity.
Share Openly 2024-03-28 Ben Werdmuller
There have been a few attempts to create “share to Mastodon” buttons, but they haven’t taken the larger breadth of the new social media landscape into account. So I’ve built a prototype, which I’ve called ShareOpenly.
Digital ID
Beginner's guide to decentralized identity and verifiable data v1.2 Indicio
Why selling personal data is a bad idea Doc Searls
Digital IDs Are Here, But Where Are They Used and Accepted? Govtech
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