Re: DID Use Cases for California Privacy Act Amendments

Here is an apparently real world use case for having a unique DID with the DMV in your control .
Disambiguation of two humans with the same names and birth dates.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-theft-racial-justice


If only these women had the ability to prove they were different people!

J

From: Sam Chase <samantha@venn.agency>
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:07 p.m.
To: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: DID Use Cases for California Privacy Act Amendments
Resent-From: <public-credentials@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:06 p.m.

Hey all,

I've spent the last couple of days going through and marking up the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DvT5TlKHHTtnm43scpfAa1GxML3onx36mhhH2D1S89Y/edit?usp=sharing>  (please comment and make notes if interested!)
It seems to me that there is a big opportunity for DIDs to perhaps step in with recommended amendments. Instead of the wrist slap, paternal oversight and subsequent lobbying and watering down of the bill <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/06/28/california-lawmakers-just-adopted-tough-new-privacy-rules-targeting-facebook-google-other-tech-giants/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1b54526333e3> perhaps we can step in with more nuanced vocabulary, articulated with our use cases.

 Big tech is expecting some sort of legislation, they will destroy it as best they can over the next two years but everyone is waking up to the nightmare of our current third party powered personal data eco-system.

If I may be so bold, it seems to me that DIDs, DKMS, SSI and this credentials group as a whole have the best chance at presenting a pragmatic solutions based approach. That helps industry comply with consent, specifically around minors. In addition to consent, portability measures mean that we need to establish a standard taxonomy, the categories that are referred to often in the bill, must be clearly defined. Transparency can't follow our currently modeled information act as the right to confuse and overwhelm. Since our working group is finalizing our use cases soon and this bill is begging for amendments and definitions perhaps we can tailor our use cases to this bill and include pieces of it as firm evidence of a need for this solution.

This is outside of the scope of the group but I'm interested to know your opinions. It seems to me the most pressing call to action in the form of regulation is a differentiation between data sciences, specifically sensing sciences. It seems to have a chance at long term compliance of laws such as these, we must taxonomize all human data streams, challenge some, shut some down, question their reason for existing, inform the public of them, choose with discretion the right sensing streams and then ensure that the data formats for each become standards.



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