Resumen de Time to digitally prove who you are
Just last month, Illinois announced a pilot project to create "secure 'self-sovereign' identity" for Illinois citizens wishing to access their birth certificate. The idea is to use a blockchain-like distributed ledger that allows online access only to the people owning the ID, and any third parties granted their permission. Illinois is working with software firm Evernym of Herriman, Utah, to create a record of who should be able to access data from the state's birth register. Once this is done, no central authority should be required, just your say-so. They're not the only ones. According to a report by Garrick Hileman and Michael Rauchs at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, UK, governments are increasingly experimenting with it, including the UK and Brazil.
