Your email provider owns your online identity by controlling your email address. You can’t port your email address to another provider as with phone numbers.
The Case for Unique Email Addresses — Musings
For the past few years, every company I interact with doesn't get the same email address from me. I'm trying to be as plain as possible w...
What is Digital Identity?
Who you are is hardly defined by your drivers license or passport. And yet, this is often how we understand ourselves and others.
IIW – Internet Identity Workshop
The Internet Identity Workshop — where the identity community meets to discuss and advance digital identity.
Google is letting some people change their @gmail address
Google is letting some people change their @gmail address, and they can swap back to their old email at any point.
Self-sovereign identity: the future of personal data ownership?
Despite the economic value of online identities, major concerns remain around privacy issues. Could the self-sovereign identity model be the solution?
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
Terms of Use - W Identity
1.1. These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a legally binding agreement between you and W Identity AB, Malmgårdsvägen 63, 116 38 Stockholm, Sweden, a company incorporated under the laws of Sweden registered under no. 559576-7061 ("W Identity AB", "we," "us," or "our"). When creating a W Identity account, using the W Identity app, or using any related W Identity services (together, the "Service" or "W Identity"), you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you must not use the Service.
Own Your Data
Delete your account or access the personal data organizations have on you using this free service.
NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines
NIST Special Publication 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines
Changing your phone provider = changing your atmosphere provider → keep your phone number = keep your identity (username) Changing your phone = changing what app you use* → keep your contacts & photos = keep your followers, following, posts, etc. You can change providers without changing phones.
“truly own your social identity on bluesky and at protocol” that’s… not how this works — this is just another PDS hosting service, which is great and needed, but it’s not giving people anymore ownership over their identity than having it hosted anywhere else let’s not confuse/mislead people plz
periwinkle.social
Privacy company called privacy.com uses Persona for identity verification You can't make this shit up
Privacy.com Virtual Cards – Secure, Temporary Cards
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