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Coming Up
[Webinar] Smart Campus: The role of digital identity in future-proofing the student journey 7/10
[ARES Conference] International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities Event 07/30-08/02
[California] DWebCamp 08/07-10
[South Africa] DID UnConf: Africa *an IIW Inspired Regional Event 09/25-27 REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!
[California] Internet Identity Workshop #39 10/29-31 Super Early Bird Registration is Open.
[webinar] News on the Swiss e-ID in English 7/4
- Decision on technology / tech roadmap
- Sandbox 2.0
- Q&A
Adoption
Japanese big bank coalition sets out to implement self-sovereign identity - Identity Week 2024-06-24 Evie Kim Sing; identityweek
Japan’s three leading financial institutions – MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho – are embarking on a joint digital identity initiative towards enhancing online banking authentication. The cohort of banks will implement an initiative building upon past proof-of-concept trials of digital ID that enable secure transactions for their customers. In 2020, Mizuho Bank jointly tested potential systems
Standards
DIF Newsletter #41 2024-06-28 blog.identity.foundation
The Linked Verifiable Presentations specification has been approved. The spec defines how to share, discover and retrieve Verifiable Credentials publicly via a service entry in a DID Document. It complements existing technologies for sharing VCs privately, like DIDComm messaging and OID4VC.
[Japanese] IdM Laboratory - Annex (MSDN/Channel9) etc. 2024-06 Naohiro Fujie: MVP for Directory Services
This blog has been coming up on the radar, for a while, but we’re only now noticing how proflific they’ve become. These posts are just from the last month!
Documents on how the Trusted Web contributes to the realization of DX have been published
The English version of the Trusted Web white paper has been released
Read the W3C Verifiable Credentials Overview (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Verifiable Credentials - Reusable Identity? What and to what extent should we verify...
Applications for Internet Identity Workshop 2024B are now open
Public review period for OpenID Federation Implementer's Draft 4 begins...
European Identity & Cloud Conference Quick Review: Day 1 (Day 2) (Day 3) (Day 4)
At EIC, we discussed how to improve ID assurance levels using Verifiable Credentials with NII...
Development
5 Ways Anonyome Has Improved its Market-Leading DI Mobile Wallet SDK 2024-06-05 Anonyome Labs
Sudo Platform Edge Agent SDK 2.0 adopts the latest v2.0 suite of Hyperledger Aries RFCs for receiving and securely storing credentials and verifiably presenting credentials. Learn about how the banking industry is using verifiable or reusable credentials
Empeiria Releases End-to-End Verifiable Data Infrastructure (EVDI) Testnet 2024-05-25 Emperia
Empeiria, a trailblazer in End-to-End Infrastructure for Verifiable Data and Trust Services, proudly announces the launch of its first testnet.
Since its release, this proprietary L1 modular blockchain has already surpassed, 1700000 transactions and DIDs, while maintaining a zero TX failure rate.
Open Source Frameworks: myBID’s Bet on the Future of Digital ID www.mybid.tech
Explore how myBID utilises Hyperledger Indy and Aries to develop secure, privacy-centric digital identities with advanced encryption and zero-knowledge proofs.
Making Bubbles 2024-06-24 Justin Richer
a new way to look at how we view account provisioning, and how we use federation technologies, especially in a world where the connection properties are always changing. I called this idea federation bubbles [...] The central idea behind a bubble in this world is that it’s an internally-cohesive network of systems, with clear boundaries and processes to cross those boundaries.
[tweet] The Paradym API now supports DIDComm/AnonCreds as well as OpenID4VC/SD-JWTs 2024-06-27 Paradym
Check out the reference https://paradym.id/reference?full
Government
Postcard from Berlin - June Newsletter 2024-06-26 Digital Identity New Zealand
The US, UK, Canada, and Australia have digital ID trust frameworks in operation and piloted, but not yet nationally legislated. Credential authentication and verification continue to evolve both in policy and technology at different speeds, making it a complex issue.
[eidas] Fulfilling Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity: Towards a Conformity Assessment Approach for Human Wallets @ OID2024 2024-06 Ricardo Bochnia, Dustin Doege, Jürgen Anke
It is about an assessment approach if SSI products actually meet the principles of SSI. If we ignore all the principles of SSI only because of the eIDAS timeframe we may end up with the opposite of what was originally intended. Thus, we need a way to check if the theoretical principles are put into practice.
[tweet] All govts to adopt digital licence standards 2024-06-24 Steve Wilson
ISO 18013 #verifiablecredentials bring potential #clicktopresent in-app. Digital trade licences, Medicare credentials, working-with-children checks, prof. memberships etc should be verifiably presentable online to truly transform digital workflows.
[...] For standard-compliant deployments, ISO 18013 provides for Trust Lists: official sets of root keys for registered credential issuers.
Connected vehicles and driver identification 2024-06-21 IDnow
As the Belgian Automobile Federation (FEBIAC) explains: “There are two types of connected cars. The first category has a 4G/5G card that vehicles use to be constantly connected to the Internet, and more specifically to the manufacturer’s online services. The second category connects via your smartphone, whose screen will be replicated on that of the vehicle.”
Use Cases
Customer Centricity - The Future of Digital Identity with Katryna Dow 2024-06-27 KuppingerCole
Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated in captivating detail a working beta version of photorealistic—or rather, video realistic—avatars in the metaverse. Zuckerberg also claims that this technology will begin rolling out this year (2023)
4 Criteria for Great vLEI Use Cases 2024-06-22 Yanisa Sunanchaiyakarn
As we enter the era of generative AI, the risk of identity theft for both individuals and organizations is escalating. A recent case in Hong Kong highlights this threat, where an office was deceived into transferring $25 million after a video call with a deepfake CFO and colleagues. As advances in AI erode trust, it becomes apparent that a robust digital identity solution for organizations is urgently needed.
Explainer
What is Self-Sovereign Identity? 2024-06-24 Truvity
Will decentralized identity unlock the future of identity protection? 2024-06-28 SecurityMagazine
Organizations and business leaders know that their companies are at risk and acknowledge that processes must be put in place to guard against identity fraud. It’s no longer a “nice to have” but a necessity to protect a company’s most important assets. In the survey mentioned above, organizations admitted they are not using proper protections against identity fraud. Almost all (97%) noted they are experiencing challenges with identity verification, and 52% are very concerned about credential compromise, followed by account takeover (50%).
KYC
[tweet 🧵] Here's the next in the series: How Safe Is Your KYC Data? 2024-06-28 Hypersign
An exploration of the difference between Traditional and Privacy-preserving KYC technologies. Hypersign showcases how it leads in secure identity verification, management, and storage.
Transak and Privado ID Join Forces to Pioneer Decentralized KYC Reusability 2024-06-25 Transak
With this partnership, Transak introduces its KYC-as-a-Service, a product designed to simplify and secure user verification processes. Transak has an edge over distribution, with 350+ partner apps, 5M+ verified users and a promising trajectory to get these numbers growing. (video)
Using verifiable credentials for reusable KYC and authentication for passwordless login to a bank account — a demonstration 2024-06-25 Tim Spring; Indicio
The demonstration is from the perspective of a bank working with a customer to open an account. It starts with collecting the required personal information to open a bank account (aka KYC — know your customer). Assuming this has been assessed by the bank as being accurate, the customer is sent a QR code to establish a secure, direct communications channel for accepting and receiving a KYC credential, which they store in a digital wallet (in this case, Indicio’s Holdr+ wallet)
AI
[tweet 🧵] 1/ I finally read Leopold Aschenbrenner's essay series on AI: Situational Awareness 2024-06-29 JasonYanowitz, Blockworks Research
Everyone, regardless of your interest in AI, should read this
Unverifiable - Personal AI is an identity. Digital identity is Personal AI. 2024-06-24 Crosshatch Blog
We reject Foucaldian subjectivity induced by modern tech platforms – we rather actively construct our own. Endeavoring to own (or verify!) platform observations of us reifies their platform construct and the behaviors or dynamics they induce. We can never truly own the data about us if we can’t own the data generating processes themselves.
Cybersecurity's Past, Present, and AI-Driven Future 2024-06-26 a16z.simplecast.com
Travis McPeak, CEO and Co-founder of Resourcely, kicks off our discussion by discussing the historical shifts in the industry. Kevin Tian, CEO and Founder of Doppel, highlights the rise of AI-driven threats and deepfake campaigns. Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO and Founder of Socket, provides insights into sophisticated attacks like the XZ Utils incident. Andrej Safundzic, CEO and Founder of Lumos, discusses the future of autonomous security systems and their impact on startups.
Decentralized Web
[scary] The Case for Authoritarianism 2024 Vitalik Buterin, Noah Smith; Bankless
I want to belive this is a ply for attention, but Vitalik has been known to launch world changing projects without considering prior art
[tweet] bluesky is still the best twitter alternative 2024-06-25 randomstring729
and atproto is technically very interesting but man, userbase selection is killing its enjoyability so bad