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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results.

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FTC rang Amazon’s bell this time, and it wasn’t as kind as Alexa

Dataconomy

Amazon FTC settlement: Ring and Alexa privacy violations cost over $30 million Amazon FTC settlement for Alexa will cost $25 million because it broke the Children’s Internet Privacy Protection Act. Zoom Settlement: Is Epiqpay legit?

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Generative Identity

Phil Windley

Summary: Generative identity allows us to live digital lives with dignity and effectiveness, contemplates and addresses the problems of social inclusion, and supports economic equality to everyone around the globe. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. This extensibility underpins its generativity.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet. A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly.

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Multi-Source Identity

Phil Windley

Social login allows it to be used across contexts but the kind of information shared is limited and its provenance is often difficult to determine. And you likely have a relationship with the state, and credentials they issue representing your birth certificate or drivers license. That's why I call Sovrin the Internet for Identity.

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What is generative AI, and why is it suddenly everywhere?

Vox

At the same time, I couldn’t escape the uncanny portraits people were generating with the image-editing app Lensa AI’s new Magic Avatar feature and then sharing on social media. AI developers want to eventually sell and license their technology for a profit. Stable Diffusion is an image generator created by the startup Stability.AI

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The Web 2.0 Revolution: keynote speech - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The first ascii web browser was created in 1992, the first graphic web browser was invented in 1993, and in 1994 the big debate was whether commercial use of the Internet should be allowed. Since 2001 a new approach to tapping the potential of the internet, dubbed Web 2.0, Social media. Thus began what is now dubbed Web 1.0,

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