Swiss university, startups partner on self-sovereign identity

Zug-based startup Partisia Blockchain and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) have announced they are partnering to define an architecture for a self-sovereign identity (SSI) that meets the data privacy and security requirements of the Swiss Federal Council.

The SSI system will give citizens the power to decide how their data will be shared. It has been developed by Partisia Blockchain, DuoKey and HES-SO Valais-Wallis and will be presented to the Department of Justice before …

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