Re: DATA and ID3 with MIT Media Lab Partner on New Digital Identity Frameworks

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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> On 20 October 2014 18:10, Stan Stalnaker <stan.stalnaker@hubculture.com>
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>> The Digital Asset Transfer Authority (DATA) <http://www.datauthority.org> in
>> collaboration with ID3, the MIT Media Lab and over 21 digital asset
>> companies have jointly endorsed a new framework for digital identity, trust
>> and open data.  https://hub.vg/DATA-ID3
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>> ID3 is a founding member of DATA, and over the last year work among DATA
>> Board Members and the Working Committee on Privacy and Identity have helped
>> shape a dynamic approach to build an open source, secure and trusted
>> platform to advance global digital currency transactions.
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>> A set of open principles are at the core of the initiative.  The
>> “Windhover Principles” are being implemented on an open source platform,
>> foundationally based on ID3’s contribution of its Open Mustard Seed (OMS)
>> software platform. As the cornerstone of the new principles and framework,
>> ID3 announced support from a wide range of digital currency and
>> Bitcoin-related companies and individuals: BitPay, BitReserve, Bitstamp,
>> BTC.sx, Coinsetter, DATA (Digital Asset Transfer Authority), Delta,
>> Epiphyte, Erik Voorhees, Hub Culture Group/Ven Currency, LaunchKey,
>> Personal, Personal Black Box, Ripple Labs, SnapSwap, Swarm, Trefoil Labs,
>> Vaurum, Xapo, ZipZap and 37coins.
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>> *The Windhover Principles for Digital Identity, Trust and Data*
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>> *1. Self-Sovereignty of Digital Identity and Personal Data:*
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>> *Individuals and groups should have control of their digital personal
>> identities and personal data.*
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>> Today we communicate, share and transact digitally over the Internet.
>> Individuals who make use of the Internet for these purposes should have
>> control over their digital identities, ensuring individual autonomy, trust
>> in their communications and counter parties, as well as in the integrity of
>> the data they share and transact with.
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>> Individuals, not social networks, governments, or corporations, should
>> control their identity credentials and personal data. Control of one’s
>> identity and personal data means that people should have unfettered access
>> to their personal data, the ability to verify attributes of their personal
>> identity profiles, and the ability to prevent unauthorized public and
>> private access.
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>> We support the collaborative open source development of systems that
>> embody these principles and recognize the need to address the requirements
>> of legacy regulatory mechanisms, including by evolving innovative digital
>> technologies to improve privacy, governance and enforcement.
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>> *2. Proportionate Enforcement and Risk-Based Regulation:*
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>> *Enhancing / improving personal privacy while promoting effective
>> governance and accommodating legitimate auditing and enforcement needs.*
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>> We encourage innovation in identity, trust, security, and data
>> technologies and policies to provide effective methods to address
>> governance and enforcement concerns. Governance includes the concepts of
>> transparency and accountability necessary to protect digital transactions
>> from abuse. We believe these technologies can address public policy
>> interests by enabling appropriate access and verification of identity data.
>> Entities and individuals, acting on the basis of verifiable approvals,
>> including due process and appropriate warrants, should be able to access
>> such data through specific and auditable means. New and evolving digital
>> technologies make it possible to protect an individual’s privacy while
>> providing authorized government access to customer identification, due
>> diligence and transaction monitoring information for legally authorized
>> needs.
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>> *3. Ensuring Innovation in Trust and Privacy:*
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>> *An effective, autonomous identity system reiteratively furthers trust,
>> security, governance, accountability and privacy.*
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>> Protecting privacy and fostering trust and governance are foundational
>> Windhover Principles that support a fully functional identity system
>> designed to collect and analyze data in a network in which identities are
>> continuously and independently authenticated. These core principles are
>> intended to foster development of more trustworthy, effective and resilient
>> products and services to minimize the risks and costs of fraud, money
>> laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activity.
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>> *4. Open Source Collaboration and Continuous Innovation:*
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>> *An inclusive, open source methodology to build systems that embody these
>> principles.*
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>> Supporters of the Windhover Principles agree to cooperate to build
>> systems that deliver these requirements and to participate in Living Labs
>> to develop strong and innovative technical product solutions that
>> interoperate to meet these challenges.
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> Great find!
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> Reminds me of:
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20140719065946/http://www.identityblog.com/wp-content/images/2009/06/7_Laws_of_Identity.jpg
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> Seems a few firms in the bitcoin space have endorsed these principles, tho
> I am unsure if that endorsement translates to the framework.
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> Will be interesting to see what they come up with.
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