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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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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Delta airlines didn't accept any that I could tell. Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. Munich has its own—or three.

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

CTOvision

Lewis and Dr. Rhonda Anderson of the ODNI National Intelligence Council will be moderating a panel of Dr Chris Reed (IARPA), Mr. Mark White (Deloitte) and myself on topics of the Internet of Things and its implication for intelligence. United Airlines. Director for Analysis, Open Source Center. Tom Conway. FireEye, Inc.

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Legal chatbot firm DoNotPay adds anti-facial recognition filters to its suite of handy tools

The Verge

Legal services startup DoNotPay is best known for its army of “robot lawyers” — automated bots that tackle tedious online tasks like canceling TV subscriptions and requesting refunds from airlines. In part, this is because Clearview AI probably already has a picture of you in its databases, scraped from public sources long ago.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

The open source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ® has two defining characteristics that make it perfectly suited to meet these needs: it’s geographically distributed, and it can respond to spikes in traffic without adverse effects to its unmatched throughput and low latency.

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The Laws of Identity

Phil Windley

It's no coincidence that Internet Identity Workshop got started in 2005. Many people were talking about user-centric identity and developing ideas about how we might be able to create an identity layer for the Internet. The Internet was created without any way to identify the people who used it.

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Generative Identity

Phil Windley

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.