Two buzzwords often heard in identity today are self-sovereign identity and distributed identity. The reason for considering new models for identity is, among other things, to avoid a single point of dependency and to put the user is in control of his or her identity and decide how much information to share with whom. It’s…
A great many years ago, long before the Internet, the media theorist Marshall McLuhan said that in the always-on interconnected future there would be new ways to be evil that we hadn’t thought of before. This prediction seems to have come true in spades at the intersection of social media and democracy, where Twitter, Facebook and…
Louis C.K, an outstanding comedian, once said: “We don’t need to keep making porn … If we stopped, no one would run out … ” Jokes aside, he’s right. Forget porn — thousands of books, movies and songs come out each day, let alone all sorts of news articles and press releases. Now this is…
In his first EEMA Identity Blog post, Kim Cameron, Identity Architect at Microsoft Corp USA, explains how the characteristics of Blockchain can be very valuable to identity, but identity must use Blockchain in a way that is consistent with the laws of identity. He shares his view that the Blockchain can be used to organise…