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The Biden administration, in coordination with 60 other countries, on Thursday unveiled a “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” that “reclaims the promise of the Internet in the face of the global opportunities and challenges presented by the 21st century.” 2022-04-28

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ID.me

  • Rough Seas Ahead People MoxyTongue

    Commentary from the man who invented the term Self-Sovereign Idenitty on the ID.me situation with the IRS.

    Humanity does not come into existence inside a database. The American Government does not come into authority "of, by, for" database entries.

    People prove birth certificates, birth certificates do not prove people.

  • IPR - what is it? why does it matter?

    There is a lot of diversity in the category of future patent problems. Someone who was contributing without declaring that they hold a patent related to the work can claim they had a patent later (years after the specification is finished) and seek payment from everyone using/implementing the standard, claiming licensing rights or even lost revenue on ideas they legally own.

  • Self-sovereign identity in the context of data protection and privacy YourStory

this article deconstructs the self-sovereign identity model and examines how it stacks up against The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019.

  • USPTO: CIO Jamie Holcombe

    CIO Jamie Holcombe says identity verification with blockchain might be in the future for USPTO and talks about navigating changes in policy & law when considering a distributed ledger to store patents & trademarks. Among the interesting questions: do we start with patent #1 (applicant: George Washington)?

  • End-To-End Encryption is Too Important to Be Proprietary Cory Doctorow

End-to-end messaging encryption is a domain where mistakes matter. The current draft of the DMA imposes a tight deadline for interoperability to begin (on the reasonable assumption that Big Tech monopolists will drag their feet otherwise) and this is not a job you want to rush.

Bedoya’s research has shined a light on digital surveillance and its impact on people of color, immigrants, and the working class. He founded the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law to focus on the importance of consumer privacy rights.

Please read Section 3 in the EO

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It may be time for us to explain Zero-Trust Architecture relationship to

VCs and DIDs. My not-so-hidden agenda includes priority for considering

authorization and delegation in our protocol work but our diverse community of security experts will surely make this a much broader discussion.

Sec. 3.  Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity.

(a)  To keep pace with today’s dynamic and increasingly sophisticated cyber threat environment, the Federal Government must take decisive steps to modernize its approach to cybersecurity, including by increasing the Federal Government’s visibility into threats, while protecting privacy and civil liberties.  The Federal Government must adopt security best practices; advance toward Zero Trust Architecture; accelerate movement to secure cloud services, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS); centralize and streamline access to cybersecurity data to drive analytics for identifying and managing cybersecurity risks; and invest in both technology and personnel to match these modernization goals.

Austin

Many folks within the identity space see VC infrastructure as the future of identification. If much of our online identity is reputation based, then VCs represent a formal method for linking reputations and vouching for others to form a web of trust within which individuals are able to conduct identity transactions in a less centralized way.

Wyoming

Blockchain Commons

  • Principal Authority

    The Digital Identity Working Group for the Wyoming Select Committee on Blockchain meets again next week, on September 21-22, 2021. I will be providing testimony there at 2pm MST. As a result, we’ve decided to release the current draft of this article on digital identity and how Wyoming has defined it using Principal Authority, with the goal of helping to shape the agenda for digital identity for the next year, both in Wyoming and elsewhere.

California

California is a major center of new privacy law and regulation, creating opportunities for internet safety advocates to help design policies that will ripple out well beyond the state’s borders. Their Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), passed by ballot proposition in 2020, created the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which seems to be getting closer to initiating its first formal rulemaking process.

California law requires a data broker, as defined in California Civil Code § 1798.99.80, to register with the Attorney General on its internet website that is accessible to the public, on or before January 31 following each year in which a business meets the definition of a data broker.

On May 4th, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into effect a “Blockchain Executive Order” 2022-05-04

“[to] assess how to deploy blockchain technology for state and public institutions, and build research and workforce development pathways to prepare Californians for success in this industry”.

We have monitored and involved ourselves in this new agency since its inception, and Lisa LeVasseur (our Executive Director) and Noreen Whysel (Director of Validation Research) shared their expertise on product audits and dark patterns, respectively, in a recent pre-rulemaking CPPA Stakeholder Session (May 5-6).

California SB1190 that would establish a “Trust Framework” at the state level. This bill was introduced to the state senate in early March by Robert Hertzberg, close friend of Los Angeles billionaire investor Nicholas Berggruen

The Verifiable Credential’s Policy Committee, (that Kaliya Chairs) in California had a big win this week

As an abstract of the bill explains, while existing law requires such records “to contain certain information and to be printed on chemically sensitized security paper, as specified,” the new legislation enables a county recorder to, upon request, issue a birth, death, or marriage record “by means of verifiable credential, as defined, using blockchain technology, defined as a decentralized data system, in which the data stored is mathematically verifiable, that uses distributed ledgers or databases to store specialized data in the permanent order of transactions recorded.”

The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”) established the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”). The CPPA has full administrative power and authority to implement the CCPA and CPRA, which basically means that the CPPA will be in charge of updating regulations and adopting new regulations, while enforcement of these regulations will be done by both the CPPA and the Attorney General

May be of interest: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-18/california-unveils-system-to-provide-digital-covid-19-vaccine-records

SMART Health Card Framework: https://vci.org/about#smart-health

To achieve this purpose, the founding members of VCI™ have collaborated to develop (1) the SMART Health Cards Framework Implementation Guide based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Verifiable Credential and Health Level 7 (HL7) SMART on FHIR standards, and (2) the SMART Health Cards: Vaccination & Testing Implementation Guide.

If you are in California, you can get your vaccine record here: https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/

You’re invited to participate in an exciting pilot program being launched by ATB Ventures and the Government of Alberta.