Self-sovereign identity’s promise is big but so are its challenges

Today’s consumers do not have much say in deciding the destiny of their data. They might not be able to define rules on data privacy, nor to decide how their data should be used by Google, Amazon and others.

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) could solve that issue by giving control over biometric data to consumers. A new paper published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) illustrates SSI’s place among other data-management concepts and its challenges.

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