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Verifiable Credentials - Working Groups, Standards and Development	VCs Development	standards	Verifiable Credentials Working Group Credentials Community Group Claims and Credentials Working Group Varieties Technology User Experience	a standard way to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.	Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, "Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 - Expressing verifiable information on the Web" published 19 November 2019.	W3C Verifiable Credentials Credentials Community Group VC-WG JSON-LD OAuth FIDO Claims and Credentials WG	Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers	web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/standards-and-development/	image caption teaser	https://decentralized-id.com/web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/standards-and-development/	2023-08-29