- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:49:10 -0500
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
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 -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
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