Identosphere 187: Interop in the spotlight • Announcing Hyperledger Identus • Southpark on the American Healthcare System • EU Call for Proposals
We curate details regarding the verifiable credentials ecosystem, from standards and development to the enterprise, company stories, decentralized web, real world use, policy and research.
New EU Architecture Reference Framework released version 1.4
The Recommendation sets up a structured process of cooperation between Member States, the Commission and, where relevant, private sector operators, to develop the Toolbox. The eIDAS Expert Group is tasked as main interlocutor for the purposes of implementing this Recommendation. The Expert Group\'s page can be found at the official page. The eIDAS Expert Group has since further developed the concepts and specifications for the European Digital Identity Framework. The current ARF version 1.4.0 is based on the legal text adopted by the co-legislators.
The U.S. has over 430 federal agencies, many hundreds of state agencies, and more than 200,000 government contracting firms, each with their own IT systems, technology stacks, and personnel. Significant cybersecurity risks lie at the edges of these systems: Anything from a missing USB stick to an expired contractor access card can compromise our national security.
A significant focus of the call is on the development of a European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem, aligned with the amended Regulation establishing the European Digital Identity Framework, which has just come into force. The objective is to improve citizens’ and businesses’ access to secure electronic identity means and trust services like electronic signatures and attestations of attributes. By 2030, 100 percent of EU citizens should have access to secure electronic identification means that are recognized throughout the Union, enabling them to control identity transactions and share personal data securely.
Digital ID has been increasingly in the news lately, as Australia begins to ramp up its systems pilots development following the passing of legislation. In Aotearoa there’s been a lot happening too as Minister Collins opened this year’s Summit where DINZ was on stage later.
They delve into the intricate world of verifiable credentials, guardianship, and the challenges of governing trust ecosystems. With real-world examples from their work with the New South Wales government and other clients, Jo and John share their expertise in distilling complex concepts into simple, digestible explanations.
the digital ID project should help to propel its transformation into a high-income, innovation-driven economy, in line with its 2030 digital strategy. First announced in 2018, the plan focuses on enhancing digital infrastructure with widespread broadband access, implementing comprehensive e-government services, and fostering a vibrant digital economy through support for startups and investment in the tech sector.
The survey found that 62 per cent of UK respondents are not very confident their organisation has the identity management tools to defend against bad actors’ use of AI. This was the lowest rate of confidence felt globally compared to 48 per cent of U.S. respondents saying the same.
And there’s a twist: decentralized identity isn’t just seen as a tactical upgrade to MFA and passwordless; it’s more than a new cost-effective platform for digital ID. It’s fast becoming positioned as a strategic approach to digital business transformation. Not only helping businesses defend against new identity threats, but becoming a new driver for business growth.
Almost all (99%) firms in the Asia-Pacific region are struggling with identity verification as 86% expect the adoption of AI by cybercriminals to increase the number of identity-based threats in the next 12 months.
It’s been a while since the upcoming changes to the Open Badges specification were first proposed. The change to v3.0 has now been ratified, with six organisations at the time of writing having platforms that are certified compatible.
OpenID Federation -35 has been published at https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0-35.html and https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html. This draft is being proposed as the fourth (and hopefully final) Implementer’s Draft of the specification.
Hyperledger Identus is a platform designed for businesses of all sizes that aim to incorporate decentralized identity into their applications. It offers extensive Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) support built on the W3C Decentralized Identity specification including DID and verifiable credential functionality and simplifies the complexities of adopting a decentralized identity solution into existing and new workflows.
We propose to reduce our length fee from 0.01 to 0.0001 tokens per byte to ensure that transactions and network upgrades become more cost-effective for our users.
Although in our early history we were best known for our work on the governance side of the dual stack, at these June conferences our emphasis will be on two new technical specifications for which we just published Implementers Drafts: the Trust Spanning Protocol and the Trust Registries Protocol. Both of these protocols are designed to maximize interoperability and authenticity and minimize risk, while still enabling each ecosystem to make the choices they need for their specific context.
On May 3rd, 2024, the EBSI-CAN project hosted a meeting of technical experts from the European Union (EU) and Canada to discuss digital identity adoption and interoperability. In a world increasingly reliant on digital transactions and services, the technical nuances of identity verification and cross-border interoperability have emerged as critical issues to the deployment of the technology.
Identity providers including Canadian Bank Note (CBN), Veridos (a joint venture between German security tech company Giesecke+Devrient and federal technology company Bundesdruckerei) and Thales shared digital and mobile identity innovations, developments and lessons learned from real-world deployments during Day 2 of ID4Africa in Cape Town.
AI can make very believable fake content that can trick people and spread false information quickly. Challenges of Digital Reputation : Building solutions that can tell if digital identities and content are trustworthy is hard. You need to know if a source has a good reputation before you can trust its content.
You’re reading this on a machine with an operating system: Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, or Android. But that’s not your OS. It’s your machine’s. How about one for you, that runs on your machine but is entirely yours? Let’s call it a Personal OS, or a POS.
The investigation revealed that Worldcoin collected face and iris images from 8,302 individuals, which the PCPD deemed “unnecessary and excessive.” The privacy watchdog also criticized Worldcoin for not providing essential documents, such as a required “Private Notice” and “Biometric Data Consent Form,” in the Chinese language, thereby making the data collection process unfair.
These are private one-to-one messages directly within the Bluesky app. By default, your permissions allow anyone you follow to DM you. You can change these settings to allow no one or anyone to message you.
As thousands of people gathered outside Taiwan’s legislature on Tuesday to protest against a bill that would give more power to China-friendly parties, Yuan, who was volunteering at a nearby church, noticed that the large crowd was running short on supplies.
I think two main groups of people are drawn to the IndieWeb:. I think two main groups of people are drawn to the IndieWeb: technical people who want to control their web experience, and people who admire the vision on the homepage: “ The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”. “
Feditesting! 2024-05-22 Heres Tom with the Weather
I was pleasantly surprised by the experience (including the specification annotations referencing each test) and the organization of the testing framework even at an early stage. I was able to get all the tests for the sass-imp-webfinger-server testplan passing last night for Irwin. For each failing test, I created an issue and referenced the test (e.g. Well-known webfinger should respond with access-control-allow-origin header #15 ).
