Scott Perry

The Internet has a trust problem. The Internet was not designed to exchange the monetary and the priceless value of our personal transactions. The pandemic brought forth a rise in our dependence on digital life: from videoconferencing to shop-at-home applications, to social media. It has also transitioned the crime and espionage centers from physical cities to the Internet. Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect (2004-2019) predicted this when stating in his landmark publication Law of Identity “The Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to. This limits what we can do with it and exposes us to growing dangers”. The centralized control on identity with every merchant, organization, and government an individual interacts with has frustrated the public with the requirement to remember hundreds of account/password combinations and the loss of control of sensitive personal data.