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#### Myth 7: User-centric identity is the same as SSI. #### Myth 7: User-centric identity is the same as SSI.
User-centric identity gaves the user greater control than before, and thats great! However, it never realized its original intentuser independenceand it actually left large intermediaries with even more power than before. Facebook and Google, the biggest beneficiaries of the move to user-centric identity, would call their services user-centric. User-centric identity gives the user greater control than before, and thats great! However, it never realized its original intentuser independenceand it actually left large intermediaries with even more power than before. Facebook and Google, the biggest beneficiaries of the move to user-centric identity, would call their services user-centric.
Even the term gives it away: youre still a user and not the owner, and that means the underlying service is siloed or federated, not self-sovereign. Of course with SSI there are services provided by third parties, such as cloud agent hosting and relationship management apps and tools, but they are modular and replaceable. Even the term gives it away: youre still a user and not the owner, and that means the underlying service is siloed or federated, not self-sovereign. Of course with SSI there are services provided by third parties, such as cloud agent hosting and relationship management apps and tools, but they are modular and replaceable.