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Digital ID Lab - CA

The Lab is Canadas first independent and neutral organization to promote the compliance of and interoperability between digital ID solutions across public and private sectors, bridging a crucial gap in the advancement of Canadas digital ecosystem.

In a search that started in October 2021, the province was considering vendors to potentially initiate digital ID, meant to replace the need for physical ID cards. According to RFP documents, the selected vendor would have worked with SGI for facial verification, but final details on accessing the photo database werent finalized.

BCGov

John shared about his journey and ongoing rehab,  and then moved on to whats up with BCGov these days and looking ahead with the same.

Canadian Identity

A hearing on the proposed regulations will occur on August 24 and 25, 2022 at 9:00 am Pacific Time. Media and members of the public are encouraged to RSVP via the link above.

Persons who wish to submit written comments on the proposed regulations must submit them by August 23, 2022

Nice resources page from BCGov

  • Canadian Government: User-Centric Verifiable Digital Credentials Challenge

    This challenge is seeking a portable secure digital credentials (self-sovereign identity) solution held by individuals that can be independently, cryptographically and rapidly verified using emerging distributed ledger standards and an approach that may give rise to a global digital verification platform.

Ontarios Digital ID will use self-sovereign identity because it gives the holder control over the credentials in their wallet. In addition, we are layering on these extra privacy-preserving features:

  • Consent  The verifier must ask you to approve their request to confirm your credentials.
  • Data minimization  The verifier can only access what they need to confirm you are eligible for their service. For example, if you need to prove that you are old enough to buy a lottery ticket, the store clerk would only know that you are 18 or older not your actual age, birth date or anything else about you.
  • Anonymity  Your credentials are not tracked or traced.

Sloan invoked the specter of China while discussing the petition, suggesting that any digital identity program would be akin to a social credit program that gives the government too much control over the personal lives of its citizens.

Canada is beginning to develop their own version of a “Tell Us Once” Digital Identity policy, an approach pioneered in Europe by the likes of Estonia.

This is a policy where having provided your data to one government agency, youll never be asked for it again from another, defined explicitly through legislation.

  • A summary of findings from government-led public consultations on digital identity
  • An overview of Ontarios Digital ID technology roadmap, and discussions about the technology stacks and infrastructure
  • Ontarios proposed conceptual model for digital identity, and the principles that inform it

“Our Ontario Onwards: Action Plan first announced our governments goal to make Ontario the most advanced digital jurisdiction in the world all in the service of the people of this province,” said Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance. “The release of Ontarios Digital ID later this year will be an exciting step towards transforming and modernizing government services in an increasingly digital world.”

tech standards that the provincial government says it is currently considering include the Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 for data modeling, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 for key management, JSON-LD 1.1 for data formatting, OpenID Connect as identity standard, BBS+ Signatures 2020 and Ed25519 Signature 2020 for signature format, Self-Issued OpenID Provider v2 and more for interoperability.

  • The Future of Digital Identity in Canada: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verified.Me SecureKey

    Verified.Me ensures that only authorized attributes are shared with explicit user consent. The service bridges together multiple participants within a common ecosystem to verify the identities of users securely and privately across the participating organizations with others within the group.

  • Decentralized, Self-Sovereign, Consortium: The Future of Digital Identity in Canada

    This article introduces how SecureKey Technologies Inc. (SecureKey) worked with various network participants and innovation partners alongside government, corporate, and consumer-focused collaborators, in a consortium approach to create a mutually beneficial network of self-sovereign identity (SSI) principles with blockchain in Canada.

  • Trust Frameworks? Standards Matter Tim Bouma

    He points at the NIST documents about it Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations published in 2018. He also points at the Canadian governments definition of standards.

    “a document that provides a set of agreed-upon rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results. Standards establish accepted practices, technical requirements, and terminologies for diverse fields.”  He goes on to highlight a lot of the work being done in Canada and where it all sits relative to being a standard - “In closing, there are lots of trust frameworks being developed today. But to be truly trusted, a trust framework needs to either apply existing standards or become a standard itself.”

  • Privacy in Ontario? Webistemology John Wunderlich

    MyData Canada recently submitted a report to the Government of Ontario in response to its consultation for strengthening privacy protections in Ontario.

  • Canada: Enabling Self-Sovereign Identity Tim Bouma

Older article not covered here, yet

The adoption of the self-sovereign identity model within the Canadian public sector is still being realized in 2020. It is too early to tell how it will change the technological infrastructure or the institutional infrastructure of Canadian public services.

This paper will explore the global conversation and consensus around data privacy regulation, with specific attention to the European Union and Canada. It will work to understand how blockchain-based firms situate themselves amid this regulation in relation to the storage of personally identifiable information by looking at relevant policy decisions, legal cases, and commentary from regulatory bodies and commissions.

“Liquid Avatar Technologies shares Indicios vision—the world needs technology that works for people by delivering real privacy and security,” said Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio. “When we launched the Indicio Network, we saw the need for a space for innovative companies to collaborate on changing how we manage identity, enable verification, and create trust. Our partnership with Liquid Avatar Technologies, one of many, shows what can happen when innovators solve pressing problems with ground-breaking technology.”

We propose a practical architecture by elaborating the service concept, SSI, and DLT to implement SSIaaS platforms and SSI services. Besides, we present an architecture for constructing and customizing SSI services with a set of architectural patterns and provide corresponding evaluations. Furthermore, we demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed architecture in practice with Selfid, an SSIaaS platform based on our proposed architecture.

Ontario (a province in Canada) just had an election last week and Darrell thinks: Digital ID Can Increase Voter Participation

Im not an expert on the election process, and this is just my opinion. Ive been lazy in past elections, and Id be lying if I said Ive voted in every one. As a citizen, I believe ease and accessibility have a lot to do with it.

The key differences between federated and decentralized identity systems - An analysis of a few notable government-led projects, such as Aadhaar (India), Verify (UK), eIDAS (EU), and the Ontario Digital Identity Program (Canada) - What decentralization means for portability, scalability, flexibility, and privacy - How governments and commercial organizations can enhance existing federated identity systems with verifiable credentials

As a part of the pilot, you will add your MyAlberta Digital ID as a verifiable credential to your mobile digital wallet (on your smartphone) and use this digital credential to open an ATB Pay As You Go Account - Digital Credential account with ATB Financial.

The proof of concept stage is where the Canadian government tests digital credentials use cases in cooperation with regulators and organizations to advance the adoption and maturity of digital credentials technology. The National Digital Trust Service aims to enable Canadians and businesses to issue, use and verify digital credentials during transactions.

We are thrilled that the academic journal Frontiers in Blockchain accepted our community case study, “Decentralized, Self-Sovereign, Consortium: The Future of Digital Identity in Canada.” This peer-reviewed article focuses on the benefits of self-sovereign identity (SSI) with blockchain and Verified.Me as an example of these concepts being effectively implemented to create a cohesive, secure service and digital identity network.

The Smart Age program provides digital age verification, supported with biometric authentication for restricted product sales like lottery tickets, tobacco, alcohol and other goods and services through a mobile device using verifiable digital credentials and biometrics without a user divulging any personally identifiable information to the store clerk.