Identity Woman

Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves

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Quoted In: Everything You Need to Know About “Vaccine Passports”

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Earlier this week I spoke to Molly who wrote this article about so called “vaccine passports” we don’t call them that though (Only government’s issue passports). Digital Vaccination Certificates would be more accurate.

Early on when the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative was founded I joined to help. In December the initiative joined LFPH and I become the Ecosystems Director working to support the community along with my colleagues Lucy Yang the Community Director and John Walker as the Community Architect.

Quoted in NYT

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I was quoted in this article about Tim Berner’s Lee and the Solid Project.

….“No one will argue with the direction,” said Liam Broza, a founder of LifeScope, an open-source data project. “He’s on the right side of history. But is what he’s doing really going to work?”

Others say the Solid-Inrupt technology is only part of the answer. “There is lots of work outside Tim Berners-Lee’s project that will be vital to the vision,” said Kaliya Young, co-chair of the Internet Identity Workshop, whose members focus on digital identity.

Wired UK Profile

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Last Year Molly Swartz a reporter who I first met via the MyData community talked to me about doing a profile and Wired UK said yes!

The article ran in their print edition and online. You can read here Wired UK and regular Wired.
I think it does a good job of reflecting the work that I have done and where we are now with these emerging technologies. It simplifies my journey to get to where I am now there is more to it and more nuance but for a 2 page article its fine.

Interview: Reality: this [OpenID] is big

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Getting in the game on OpenID standards: A conversation with Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman was published today on Net Squared. Marshall interviewed me via e-mail and then wrote up this story. He does a great job of explaining how identity brokers work and how people can use identifiers within contexts.

The social web, Web 2.0 or whatever you want to call it, is supposed to be all about web services, interactivity and data portability. In this context, Open ID standards will be increasingly important.
Reality: this is big

I thought that big vendors considered it in their best interests to lock us in to their systems with non-open Identities. Kaliya says that’s no longer the case. “They are all getting that identity is a ‘commons’ that no one can own,” she says. “They are seeing the end of usefulness in approaching the world through silos. The whole corporate tech world is a big exercise in sticking things together…standards really make this less expensive.”