“Digital identity” opens up a huge can of worms, or what Wilson calls a “sea change” in the entire field:
It turns out that the problems we’ve been trying to solve in digital identity are actually much bigger problems across the digital economy, to do with verification of claims and verification of data – the provenance of data.
So what about Wilson’s assertion that “identity is dead”? Acknowledging the rhetorical flourish of his blog title, Wilson explains his motivation:
I absolutely say without apology that the digital identity movement has failed to deliver on a big promise that we had 10/12/13 years ago – that you would be able to re-use digital identity across all of your walks of life.
Fall event highlight – Steve Wilson says digital identity is dead, so where do we go from here? (December 2019)