The world moves. Technology advances. We find ourselves standing at crossroads, staring at paths paved by Big Gov and Big Tech. Both promise the same thing: a digital ID for the new age. But the truth? It’s found somewhere else – in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI). Here’s why. Big Gov has strength. It has power. But […]
As we grapple with the global health crisis, several nations have implemented health passports, digital documents showing an individual’s health status. While they may seem like a practical solution to ensuring public health safety, these passports are not without concerns. In fact, they raise numerous ethical, legal, and privacy issues. Critics argue that such passports […]
In the digital age, personal data has become one of the most valuable commodities. However, the traditional methods of managing digital identity have been fraught with challenges, such as data breaches, identity theft, and lack of privacy. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) offers a new approach to digital identity management, which gives individuals full control over their […]
National Digital ID is not Self-Sovereign ID National Digital ID is not Self-Sovereign ID, yes it’s a good place to start. You need to have Government issued identification, or a birth certificate in order to create Self-Sovereign ID. The passport will always remain a key document for proving your identity but if your only Digital […]
Evolution of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Trust in Governments, the UN, or Corporations has eroded to the point where most people know that online privacy protection is an empty promise. Very few people trust the intent or purpose for collecting data because they don’t trust the people mandating the collection. However, the pandemic caused the necessity […]
Artificial Intelligence is diametric to Self-sovereign Identity. In an exclusive two-hour interview in Moscow to mark the publication of his memoirs, Permanent Record, Snowden said dire warnings that his disclosures would cause harm had not come to pass, and even former critics now conceded “we live in a better, freer and safer world” because of […]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has approved a charter for a new Working Group tasked with standardizing the data model and syntax of decentralizedidentifiers (DIDs)—the ID keys of self-sovereign identity. The Verifiable Claims Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0. Credentials are a part of our daily lives; […]
BarclayCard: Identifying the consumers of tomorrow From a BarclayCard Press Release and Fintech News – 06 Dec 2018 There’s no doubt the technology of the future will look vastly different to the technology of today. But ‘future’ doesn’t mean 10 or even 20 years down the line. Within the next four years we could be […]
