- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:06:52 -0400
- To: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
Hi all, As some of you have already seen, a statement urging governments to not deploy digital identity solutions that "phone home" was released today: https://nophonehome.com/ Organizations such as Brave, ACLU, EFF, CDT, EPIC, DCC, DIF, ToIP, and others have signed onto the statement, along with a number of long time contributors to this community, the cryptography community, and the privacy advocacy community in general. The media has already picked the story up: https://statescoop.com/no-phone-home-mobile-drivers-license-privacy/ ... and Timothy and Kim have done a great job of writing to the concerns that this community has been talking about for years, but most recently came to a rolling boil at the last IIW: https://rufftimo.medium.com/phone-home-is-bad-really-bad-eccbbf89fc6e https://kimdhamilton.com/latent_surveillance/ The finger is pointed firmly at how ISO operates, the ISO 18013-5 (mDL) specification, the mDL reader requirement to implement phone home, and the more recent "privacy by policy" anti-pattern that we're seeing emerge. Please share the links above to help us get the word out, even if it is to disagree. We need the healthy public debate, that didn't happen at ISO, to now happen in the open. I'd be interested in hearing what folks in this community think about the statement and the resulting news stories and blog posts. -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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