Identity

Daniel Jalkut suggests registering a separate Apple Account for each country you visit regularly, so you can install the region-locked apps that local businesses increasingly require. Bonus tip: grab a travel eSIM with a local phone number so you can actually complete those signups.

via Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io): When people say you should “own your own data,” or that the future of the web is “ownership,” what does that mean?

Molly White untangles the many contradictory things people mean when they say “digital ownership” — buying media you can’t keep, controlling your own data, owning your audience — and argues we’d be better served by naming the specific rights we actually want. A clarifying read that cuts through both platform lock-in apologetics and crypto “ownership era” hype.

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via Kent Bull: The Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation is now hosting the KERI protocol specifications.

via Dave Rahardja: Ah yes, this is a great way to turn “Can I see your driver’s license?” into “Can you hand me your unlocked phone so I can rifle through it?” at a traffic stop.

Timothy Ruff on Medium: Calling All Wallets: An open solicitation for high-volume wallet projects

Zach Jones at Trinsic: Passkeys, did:web, Ed25519, Wallet Integrations, CHAPI, & More

Kaliya Young on Medium: Wallet Wars or Collaborative Wallet Ecosystems?

Riley Hughes, CEO of Trinsic, interviews Ankur Patel, Head of Product at Entra Verified ID at Microsoft.

via Stephen Shankland: I predict that passkeys will be a big deal. In my tests using them for Google login, then with CVS just prompting me to migrate to them from password authentication, they were indeed pretty simple to use. 1Password is testing the ability to store passkeys and now the ability to unlock your passkey vault with passkeys. My latest story:

Phil Windley’s Technometria: Passkeys: Using FIDO for Secure and Easy Authentication

GitHub: jruizaranguren/best-of-digital-identity: A ranked list of awesome Digital Identity open source projects