Re: In case of accidents

You might want to engage with Michael Corning at Secours (secours.io).
Their entire business is planning for these types of eventualities, and
they're using guardianship and verifiable credentials to do it. Contact me
directly if you want an introduction.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:50 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 1/23/20 5:15 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> > If so, depending on the prevailing personal
> > information identifier systems and regulation within the nation, the
> > best option would be biometrics. However, access to and scope of use
> > of biometrics would be restricted to specific agencies.
>
> Hi Sankarshan and Sethi,
>
> There are a number of organizations that have been exploring the use of
> "Guardians" and "Delegates" in events such as these. Most of the
> solutions boil down to "use a capability/key that can only be used when
> a proof that you are in trouble is provided by an authoritative source,
> such a as hospital". That capability key would allow the hospital to
> retrieve a subset of the information in your digital wallet, like "all
> medical records".
>
> It is also possible to have a "protected biometrics mapping to access
> capability/key" service that you opt into that is, again, only
> accessible by healthcare workers in an emergency without leaking which
> DID the information is associated with and in some cases, without
> leaking anything more than things that need to be known like which
> medications you're on, your basic health profile, possibly an emergency
> contact via encrypted communication -- no personal names, emails,
> personal numbers, etc. ... but all that is probably more than a decade
> or more off into the future.
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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