Digital Identity and Self Sovereignty with Kaliya Young & Lucy Yang - Episode 7

Digital Identity and Self Sovereignty with Kaliya Young & Lucy Yang - Episode 7

Digital Identity and Self Sovereignty with Kaliya Young & Lucy Yang - Episode 7

Digital Identity and Self Sovereignty with Kaliya Young & Lucy Yang - Episode 7


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Imagine a world in which you control your own identity and are truly the arbiter of which personal information is shared with others. The tools making this a reality are evolving right now…

At the spearhead of the movement for self-sovereign identity are Kaliya Young, a leader in decentralised identity, and Lucy Yang, a tech entrepreneur and advisor. We hear from them on The Future of You this week, as we dissect digital wallets, verifiable credentials, digital identity, anonymity and self-sovereignty.

This episode of The Future of You covers:

  • Why digital identity is so important and how it differs from the physical realm
  • The tools Kaliya and Lucy are developing to enable self-sovereign identities
  • Whether anonymity or pseudonymity is feasible while maintaining accountability
  • Wallet Wars: how might wallets evolve and consolidate across the public and private sector
  • The principles of physical identity that must carry over into a digital solution and the importance of Opens Standards


The Future of You by Tracey Follows on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology-ebook/dp/B08XBN4GBB

Tracey Follows:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceyfollows/
https://twitter.com/traceyfutures

Futuremade Consulting:
https://futuremade.consulting
https://www.linkedin.com/company/futuremadeconsulting/
https://twitter.com/_futuremade

Kaliya Young
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaliya/
https://twitter.com/identitywoman
https://identitywoman.net/

Lucy Yang
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyyang1122/

Episode highlights

“Those entities that give us identifiers like our email address, or our username in a particular context, can also take those away from us. So how do we have autonomy and empowerment in ways that mean the institutions we're interacting with can't just take the identifiers away from us?” - 4:20 - Kaliya Young

“In the last six years we've innovated a next generation of technologies that have more hope for user empowerment called decentralised identity or self sovereign identity. We’re trying to separate out the attributes about people that they might want to share, and we’re creating new tools for that to happen.” - 7:50 - Kaliya Young

“The recipe for verifiable credentials in its best form means that an issuer packages up a credential for an individual, they give it to the individual, it sits in the individual's wallet, and they decide where and when they share the information.” - 20:00 - Kaliya Young

“It's not only about government identity sharing or exchange, but also about how individual citizens can use government issued and trustworthy identities to interact with private sector players who will provide their day to day services.” - 27:00 - Lucy Yang

“I do see all kinds of wallets exist, which will be confusing to individuals to begin with, but how these wallets will merge and evolve down the road; that's a question mark for me as well.” - 30:30 - Lucy Yang

“My paper driver's licence from the state of California does not ping the state of California every time I use it. My digital version of the same thing should not ping the state of California every time I use it. It doesn't mean the state of California shouldn't have my photo somewhere.” - 39:25 - Kaliya Young

“There's interesting ideas about how to both support anonymity or pseudonymity, and accountability in the digital world. We need to look more seriously at that. You can see this in the dating realm with people, especially women, not revealing their real identity in those realms, but they're willing to be accountable, and they’d like the men that they're trying to date to also be accountable in these systems.” - 53:40 - Kaliya Young

“I'd love to see a social movement of concerned citizens who are educating themselves and also engaging with the issue - not in a hysterical way, but in a proactive, movement-building way so that we values based technologists who are really trying to shape the future in a positive way have some backup.” - 55:50 - Kaliya Young

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