Self-Sovereign Identity
Self-Sovereign Identity is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
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Identity Sovereignty
Failures in self-sovereign identity can expose people to identity fraud, unauthorised decisions, coerced data use, loss of access, unfair exclusion, surveillance and diminished human agency.
8 canonical Subtopics in this Topic.
Data Sovereignty
Data Sovereignty is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
Jurisdictional Identity
Jurisdictional Identity is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
Identity Without Central Dependency
Identity Without Central Dependency is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
Biological–Digital Identity Boundaries
Biological–Digital Identity Boundaries is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignt
Identity Rights
Identity Rights is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
Portability and Exit
Portability and Exit is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
Sovereignty Under Surveillance
Sovereignty Under Surveillance is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within identity sovereignty.
Stories from Identity Sovereignty
Scenario narratives — not empirical findings.
Self-Sovereign Identity
At 8:10 on Monday morning, Eli, the patient advocate, removed the word “successful” from the programme dashboard. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in self-sovereign identity, especially where
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The prototype impressed every investor in the room. The unanswered question on the whiteboard was whether it improved a human outcome. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in data sovereignty, esp
Read the full story →Jurisdictional Identity
The first customer did not ask Melissa for more features. They asked what would happen when the system was wrong. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in jurisdictional identity, especially where
Read the full story →Identity Without Central Dependency
Lucas had already told the story three times before the appointment began. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in identity without central dependency, especially where identity, consent, access o
Read the full story →Biological–Digital Identity Boundaries
“It works,” one person said. “For whom, for how long, and compared with what?” Maya replied. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in biological–digital identity boundaries, especially where identi
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At 8:10 on Monday morning, Eli, the nurse unit manager, removed the word “successful” from the programme dashboard. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in identity rights, especially where identi
Read the full story →Portability and Exit
The briefing room was full, but the first slide contained only one question: who carries the consequence if this fails? Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in portability and exit, especially whe
Read the full story →Sovereignty Under Surveillance
The lesson plan looked personalised on screen. In the classroom, Mateo saw that personalisation and understanding were not the same thing. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in sovereignty under
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