Interview - Phil Windley

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0:00 So my presentation was about why decentralized identity, first-person

0:05 identity as I like to call it, needs a legal foundation. And I spoke to the idea

0:11 that SEDI, recent legislation that has been passed in Utah, SEDI stands for State

0:18 Endorsed Digital Identity, can provide a lot of that legal foundation that we need

0:24 to make digital identity work. I don't think it necessarily would surprise many

0:28 people at this conference, but one thing I see differently than many is the need for

0:34 first-person identity, for identity that is controlled by the individual rather

0:40 than provided to them by some other organization. We've been working on self

0:46 -sovereign, decentralized identity, first -person identity for since 2015, so 10, 11

0:55 years at this point. What has been missing is the legal foundation that makes it

1:01 possible. I believe that what I talked about, the legal foundation for digital

1:08 identity is not just a nice to have, but a necessary component of a functioning

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