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## Contents

* [Selected articles from Windley.com](#selected-articles-windleycom)
* [EU General Data Protection Regulation Act](#eu-general-data-protection-regulation-act)
* [Research Papers](#research-papers)
* [Reports](#reports)


## Selected articles Windley.com

* [windley.com/tags/sovrin](http://www.windley.com/tags/sovrin)
* [An Internet for Identity](http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/08/an_internet_for_identity.shtml)
* [A Universal Trust Framework](http://www.windley.com/archives/2017/01/a_universal_trust_framework.shtml)
* [Building Your Business on Sovrin: Domain-Specific Trust Frameworks](http://www.windley.com/archives/2018/03/building_your_business_on_sovrin_domain-specific_trust_frameworks.shtml)
* [The Sovrin Foundation](http://www.windley.com/archives/2018/07/the_sovrin_foundation.shtml)
* [Decentralization in Sovrin](http://www.windley.com/archives/2018/10/decentralization_in_sovrin.shtml)
* [Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers](http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/09/self-sovereign_identity_and_the_legitimacy_of_permissioned_ledgers.shtml)
* [The Sovrin Ecosystem](http://www.windley.com/archives/2018/11/the_sovrin_ecosystem.shtml) (Disambiguating between Evernym, Sovrin, and Indy)


## EU General Data Protection Regulation Act

* [Digital Identity Management in the Context of GDPR & Sovrin —Why Data Privacy Matters & How to Protect It](https://blog.tykn.tech/digital-identity-management-in-the-context-of-gdpr-sovrin-43028247378b)
* [Implementing Privacy by Design in Hyperledger Indy](https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/Hyperledger-Indy-Privacy)
* [Self-Sovereign Privacy By Design](https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/protocol/blob/master/self_sovereign_privacy_by_design_v1.md)
* [Privacy by Design The 7 Foundational Principles](https://www.ipc.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/Resources/7foundationalprinciples.pdf) 
* [When GDPR Becomes Real, and Blockchain is no longer fairydust](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/final-documents/gdpr.md)
* [Is Self-Sovereign Identity the ultimate GDPR compliance tool? [1\3]](https://medium.com/evernym/is-self-sovereign-identity-ssi-the-ultimate-gdpr-compliance-tool-9d8110752f89) [[**2**](https://medium.com/evernym/is-self-sovereign-identity-ssi-the-ultimate-gdpr-compliance-tool-40db94c1c437)] [[**3**](https://medium.com/evernym/is-self-sovereign-identity-ssi-the-ultimate-gdpr-compliance-tool-7296a3b07769)]
* [Privacy by Design in Hyperledger Indy](https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2018/09/12/privacy-by-design-in-hyperledger-indy)

## Research Papers
* [A Conceptual Analysis on Sovrin](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323144927_A_Conceptual_Analysis_on_Sovrin)
* [Evernym Research Collection *2016 Archive*](https://web.archive.org/web/20170206161655/http://www.evernym.com/our-research/)
* [Matching Identity Management Solutions to Self Sovereign Identity Solutions](https://www.slideshare.net/TommyKoens/matching-identity-management-solutions-to-selfsovereign-identity-principles)
* [A First Look at Identity Management Schemes on the Blockchain](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03294.pdf)


## Reports
* [A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Identity Management Utility Sovrin](https://dutchblockchaincoalition.org/uploads/pdf/Blockchain-Sovrin-rapport.pdf)
* [White Paper: Canada’s Digital ID Future - A Federated Approach](https://www.cba.ca/embracing-digital-id-in-canada)
* [IDENTITY MATTERS](https://cboxxtest.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/cboxxidentitymatters04.pdf)
* [A position paper on blockchain enabled identity and the road ahead—Identity Working Group of the German Blockchain Association](https://www.bundesblock.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ssi-paper.pdf)

