Episode 127: What is The First Person Network?

How can we prove we're real people online without surrendering our biometrics? Join us for a conversation with Drummond Reed, co-organizer of the First Person Project, on building privacy-preserving, trust-based proof of personhood at Internet scale. We'll explore the new governance framework from Ayra and why interoperable, individual-first credentials could transform digital identity.

#Speakers

• Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
• Guest: Drummond Reed, W3C DID Spec Co-Editor, Decentralized Identity Guru

#Homework

• Announcement
• [Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online](Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online )
• Wired article The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
• BioMetricUpdate.Com Article First Person Credentials next solution in line to solve proof-of-personhood
• Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity

#Takeaways

• A person should not have to give up a correlatable identifier to transact--giving up my Aadhaar number is oversharing for most transactions. And PII is toxic waste for the RP unless they absolutely need it.
• Sam Altman backed Worldcom is using biometric hashes as the base for its personhood credential. The First Person Network thinks this is a bad design decision.
• The idea is to have multiple issuers of First Person Network credentials, and then to establish some kind of trust network so they can validate each other's tokens.
• In the spirit of VRM, the First Person Network not only envisions person credentials, but also person relationship credentials. These relationship tokens could be factored into authorization decisions.
• It sounds like the First Person Network wants to stay credential format neutral? One day there could be a JWT version?