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How Self-Sovereign Identity Platforms Assert Digital IDs

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Galyna Chekan
How Self-Sovereign Identity Platforms Assert Digital IDs

During last year the general public’s distrust around the process of collecting and processing client's personal data has grown significantly. All this buzz is a result of modern data protection laws (such as the GDPR) and the inability of corporations and government bodies to protect databases from hacking and data breaches. Basically, the “traditional” digital identity management model is fundamentally flawed. 

Self-sovereign identity (SSI), according to many, can resolve these issues. The core principles and defining characteristics of such SSI systems are the following:

  1. An individual is the only authority capable of giving permission as to how and in which context their personal data is to be used.
  2. The identity must be transportable and interoperable.
  3. Transactions with minimum exposure.
  4. SSI must focus on users, not service providers.
  5. The administrative procedures used by identity networks must be open-source and transparent.
  6. Users must be able to maintain persistent identifiers.A right to be forgotten should be maintained.

 

 

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