Microsoft To Implement Blockchain-Based ID System
By Helen Partz
Microsoft revealed its plans to integrate Blockchain-based decentralized IDs (DIDs) into its Microsoft Authenticator app, the company announced in a blog post Monday, Feb. 12.
As reported in the post, Microsoft is looking to provide new a model of digital identity that would not be controlled by any centralized institution and would guarantee fully private data storage, enabling the individual to have full control of “all elements of [their] digital identity.”
After considering a number of standards for decentralized identity systems, Microsoft reports they decided that Blockchain technology and protocols were “well suited” for the task, stating:
“Some public blockchains (Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum, Litecoin, to name a select few) provide a solid foundation for rooting DIDs, recording DPKI operations, and anchoring attestations.”
Moving forward, Microsoft plans to add DID support to its Microsoft Authenticator app to manage identity data and cryptographic keys. The app, which was launched in August 2016, is used by millions of people, according to the company.
In October, 2017, Cointelegraph reported that a number of governments globally are considering adopting Blockchain-based identity management systems to shift the control of data from the government or corporations to individual citizens.
Everyone's doing it!
My question is this: if you create an identity on the blockchain, does it make it easier to track you? will you still call an identity capturing blockchain a decentralized one?
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That's a good question. That would be all bad being able to track anyone on the planet at anytime. This stuff is getting interesting.
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I still have basic security issues with Microsoft on the windows platform let alone trust them with my data in other ways. I think Microsoft will need to bring in some security partners with this move. The tracking of data with DID's will make it easier for people to be targeted and identified is this the secret big brother move ----> here comes the FUD lol nice article.