Author Archives: Stephen Wilson

The AU Digital ID Bill passes Senate Committee review

The Australian parliament is working on the government’s Digital ID Bill 2023. After passing the...

The spectre and distraction of a single ID

About Making Data Better episode 9, “The Bigger Step: Want a Single Digital ID?” The...

Digital ID and “digital identity”

Terminology Digital Identity: An amorphous concept attempting the impossible job of capturing all that a...

Can a metaphor be too good?

Digital wallets are necessary but not nearly sufficient for effective verifiable credentials. Here I look...

WDYRNTK?

We frequently use the word “identity” when we don’t really mean it. We frame digital...

Video: Authentication for Everything: How to make good on the promise for digital wallets

Verifiable credentials and cryptographically strong wallets can prove the origin of a subject’s important claims...

Australia buries Digital Identity

It appears that Australia has killed off “digital identity”. Australia’s proposed Digital ID legislation is...

Video: Zero Identity (Identiverse 2023)

I closed my Identiverse 2022 speech with a discomfiting call to action: “If zero trust...

Who owns a facial match?

I use the word “own” here figuratively, in the sense of taking responsibility for the...

A pathway to verifiable data

The fourth of four reflections after Kate Carruthers and I spoke on her Data Revolution...