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Identity Hubs as personal datastores

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Alex_Simons
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Mar 29, 2019
Today’s world of concentrated social media, data breaches, election hacking, and Cambridge Analytica makes it self-evident that individuals need a new way forward, one which enables them to take back...
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Apr 02, 2019
The overwhelming standard for protecting personal data APIs is OAuth2. The "permissions" API standard on top of OAuth2 is Kantara UMA. The UMA Authorization Server would be an ideal service for the Identity Hub. It would be a service endpoint in a DID document and would benefit greatly from the privacy features of the Microsoft design. Can the Azure Identity Hub support an UMA Authorization Server? If not, why not?