Category Archives: Identity

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...

On Identification and identity

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

DVP/Update 02: Pleasing initial responses to the Data Verification Platform model, and the Making Data Better podcast rolls out

A lot has happened since our first update at the end of May. From conferences...