Posts with keyword: hyperledger

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No on Universal Patient ID

Wed Jun 26 13:55:00 2019

Just as we're finally at a point where online identity system can solve the health care records problem without using a universal identifier, the US is poised to explore one. Let's not. Instead let's use identity systems that protect privacy.
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Self-Sovereign Identity at IIW: We Have Liftoff

Mon May 6 18:23:00 2019

Last week was the 28th semi-annual Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). There were 129 session conducted by people from all over the world and about many different aspects of identity. There were technical discussions, standards works, policy debates, and lots of demonstrations. I'll post a link to the Book of Proceedings when it's available so you can read about them yourself.1 One thing that stood out to me is the impact self-sovereign identity is having. There were several dozen sessions on SSI. I was excited to see seven different implementations of Indy Agents that were working together and combined to
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Hyperledger Welcomes Project Indy

Mon May 1 16:34:00 2017

The Sovrin Foundation announced at the 24th Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) that its distributed ledger, custom-built for independent digital identity has been accepted into incubation under Hyperledger, the open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies hosted by The Linux Foundation.
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