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- Meet Kantara’s new Executive Director, Kay Chopard Lets Talk about Digital Identity
Kay explores why identity is so critical in so many applications; her hope for more promotion of Kantara’s great work and to advance opportunities for collaboration; Kantara’s new mobile drivers licenses (mDLs) work group; Women in Identity and the problem of lack of diversity in standards working groups; and why access and inclusion is one of the biggest challenges facing identity today.
- EIC Speaker Spotlight: Kay Chopard on Driving Digital Trust The mission of Kantara is to grow and fulfill the market for trustworthy use of identity and personal data. And that's a very broad mission. But to do that, some of the things you see in our mission are words like trust, grow, fulfilling what the market needs.
- Exostar Receives Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Trust Framework Certification - Latest Recognition Further Demonstrates Company Protects Customers’ Identity and Personal Data by Complying with NIST 800-63 Standard
“This is a significant achievement and market differentiator for Exostar. The Kantara assessment and review process is rigorous and approval demonstrates a company’s care and respect for its customers.”
- User-Managed Access (UMA) 101 George Fletcher, Kantara Initiative UMA Work Group
The UMA extension grant adds… docs.kantarainitiative.org/uma/wg/rec-oauth-uma-grant-2.0.html
- Party-to-party: Resource owner authorizes protected-resource access to clients used by requesting parties
- Asynchronous: Resource owner interactions are asynchronous with respect to the authorization grant
- Policies: Resource owner can configure an AS with rules (policy conditions) for the grant of access, vs. just authorize/deny
- Such configurations are outside UMA’s scope
- Working Group for Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credentials Kantara Initiative
Clearly the use of a driver’s license goes well beyond proving eligibility to drive a vehicle. It has become the de-facto standard for proving that you are who you say you are – and are entitled to the product or service requested. An increasing number of states are adopting mobile ID systems to recognise and verify mobile credentials including driver’s licenses (mDL).
The report outlines how to implement mDL systems as Privacy Enhancing Technologies. It provides guidance on protecting people’s individual privacy and the digital identifiers of an individual who carries or uses an mDL.
The language consists of
- International standard vocabulary for security and privacy frameworks provides roles and actors to govern the transfer of personal data.
- The active state notice and consent receipt - is a format for generating consent records from notice/policy - which provides people with information to use rights. .
- W3C Data Privacy Control Vocabulary and ISO/IEC 29100, Legal Framework Vocabulary
This language can be used to auto generate receipts to process rights and negotiate terms .. At Kantara we are working to use the standards to auto read the notices/polices to provide a conformance / trust assessment for people so they can see risk independently of the service provider
We discussed these projects and have some links
For more info
Goto Kantara ANCR WG https://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=140804260
W3C DPV CG - https://dpvcg.github.io/dpv/
ToiP - ISWG - Notice & Consent Task force for a Privacy Controller Credential
A global digital ID association has published steps vendors and others need to take in order to build effective mobile driving license services that also put ID holders in control of their identity. The Kantara Initiative’s report starts from the premise that trust in mobile driving licenses grows with the degree of control that license holders have over the documents, their privacy and
- Kantara’s Kay Chopard Talks Digital Security, Diversity, and Business Advice Kantara - DigitalID NZ
In August, Kantara Executive Director Kay Chopard spoke with Oscar Santolalla on Let’s Talk About Digital Identity, a Ubisecure-produced podcast. Chopard and Santolalla discussed a wide range of topics, including Chopard’s vision for Kantara and the digital security world, her role in supporting diversity and inclusion, and other topics.