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Privacy Talk with Kim Hamilton Duffy, Executive Director of Decentralized Identity Foundation: Why…
- Kim Hamilton Duffy, Executive Director of Decentralized Identity Foundation, shares her journey in the digital identity space and the challenges of balancing trust and privacy online.
- Duffy discusses how her passion for new, unsolved problems led her to focus on blockchain and decentralized identity solutions.
- She highlights the importance of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers in protecting privacy and allowing individuals to manage their own data.
- The Decentralized Identity Foundation also focuses on ecosystem growth through demonstrating and showcasing use cases, with regional special interest groups like the Japan special interest group.
- Duffy's work on credentials began while she was CTO at Learning Machine, where they focused on ensuring learning and working credentials remained usable through blockchain solutions like the Blockcerts standard.
- She emphasizes the importance of being able to prove your credentials are about yourself to convince others while maintaining privacy.
- The article is a part of the Privacy Talk series, a global community with diversified experts.
- Duffy’s technical background includes two decades of experience in software engineering and distributed systems.
- She has held leadership roles in technical standards and interoperability groups such as World Economic Forum, W3C, and US Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
- Duffy holds an M.S. in Applied Math from Cornell University and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas.
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