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What are the necessary policy and software configurations to ensure the possibility of human rights in the overall digital domain? In my previous blog, I posed a similar question with respect to digital technologies and human freedom. For both human rights and freedom, the answer is ‘yes’ because of human rights policies championed by Europe as reflected in the GDPR, eIDAS, and LIGHTest. Combined, these EU efforts recognize that digital identity must be configured to enable human agency and autonomy with the support of a distributed global trust assurance infrastructure. Leveraging the DNS infrastructure for distributed and networked trust management enables the promise of digital identity as a human right. As seen in three emerging use cases, LIGHTest unleashes the possibility of a global trust assurance infrastructure for digital identity in support of persons who are physically uprooted from their communities by climate change, lack of financial inclusion, and violence. First, last week, the United Nations Climate Summit explored the effects of climate change, to include populations being uprooted by drought, rising sea-levels, disrupted growing seasons, and increased storm severity. Persons forced to migrate due to climate change will face the need for a new legal identity but with trust assurances forged on actions undertaken with the old identity. The LIGHTest is proving to be well-suited for extending the EU information trust management model in such contexts where trust is distributed instead of centralized. Second, NGOs are now taking interest in using LIGHTest as a method for enabling trusted digital identity to help achieve financial inclusion throughout the developing world. Recognizing that the lack of a legal identity is a barrier to accessing basic health and financial services, the UN has included target 16.9 in the UN Sustainable Development Goals: “to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration by the year 2030.” Approximately 1.1 billion people currently do not possess a legal identity or birth registration with which to participate in the global information economy. Third, LIGHTest infrastructure for trust translation and validation is now poised to be used by the UNHCR. UNHCR officials plan to deploy the use of LIGHTest to enable data protection and consent-based sharing with respect to personal information collected for UN-issued identity credentials. Thus, LIGHTest promises to give refugees an essential tool by which to control their UNHCR-provided digital identities and attributes. The LIGHTest stands for the principal that digital technologies are not the ends to which human beings are to be made the means. Rather, humans must be the measure of all digital technologies. It is, therefore, fitting that Stuttgart will have hosted the first and last meetings of the LIGHTest team. As the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller – Europe’s poet of human freedom and inspiration to Beethoven in composing what would later become the EU anthem – Stuttgart can now claim Europe’s heart for maintaining human rights and freedom in the digital domain for the benefit of the entire global community. Comment from The Right Reverend Thomas J. Brown Bishop of Maine, the Episcopal Church "As the climate changes the need for digital identity and trust of same will be a necessary component for safety and life. We already know that communities are changing, rapidly, and that migration and displacement are likely to increase. Thank you LIGHTest for showing us the way. Your thought leadership strengthens the whole human community." Original article was published in 2019. Click here for this article and related articles. https://www.onlineidentitytrustnotary.com/online-notarization daily 0.75 2021-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feb9d8f175ffd115ab172d1/1611777435689-F7DILW9HCCZYWGBNU2UW/dark+web+3.jpg e-Notarization Law Evidentiary Requirements for Electronic Notarization and the Legalization of Certified Electronic Documents By Timothy Reiniger, Esq. Notaries have long been critical components in authenticating documents. If a document has been notarized, it is “self-authenticated” under Rule 902, Federal Rules of Evidence. No witness or other extrinsic evidence is necessary to provide the authentication foundation. The document comes directly into evidence, where the opposing party can challenge its authenticity with controverting evidence. In the traditional physical realm, notaries confirmed the identities of signers, their intent to be bound by the document to be signed, and the completeness of the document to be signed. After witnessing the act of signing, or the affirmation of a signature, they provided the notarial act of attesting to the signature by applying their seal and other official information to the physical document. The act of the notary proved identity, intent, and the genuineness of the entire record at the time of signing. The notary made an official record of the date. As for continuing integrity of the information in the document, the notarial system then depended, like the rest of society, on the physical nature of the artifact to preserve the integrity of the document that had been notarized. One of the keys to the system was a physical seal, also an artifact of sorts that could be traced to the notary. (Click here to continue reading) https://www.onlineidentitytrustnotary.com/electronic-signatures daily 0.75 2021-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feb9d8f175ffd115ab172d1/1612287466210-KEWXFLKSJ3EJAYZYUHDK/dark+web+3.jpg e-Signatures and Identity Law Electronic Signatures in Law IDENTITY IN LAW Reviewed by Timothy S. Reiniger* In this analysis and critique of electronic signature forms and laws as they are developing around the world, Stephen Mason explains the authentication, evidentiary, and authority purposes of electronic signatures and their historical antecedents in signature law generally. This is not intended to be simply a “how to” guide for everyday practitioners. Instead, Mason’s mission is to remind policy makers and judges that electronic signatures are yet another technology that must be governed by existing legal principles and made to serve human needs. Technology and systems must not be allowed to supersede or change an “ancient protocol” of law.1 Without attempting to be prescriptive, Mason presents electronic signa tures as being essential to establish identity relationships and determine legal responsibility in the information economy. Electronic signatures are not only the primary method of authentication in law, they also represent or symbolize identity relationships in a given context.2 To study this book is to study the law of identity. (Click here to continue reading) https://www.onlineidentitytrustnotary.com/trust-between-machines daily 0.75 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feb9d8f175ffd115ab172d1/1611777435689-F7DILW9HCCZYWGBNU2UW/dark+web+3.jpg Trust between Machines? “Trust” Between Machines? Establishing Identity Between Humans and Software Code. By Stephen Mason and Timothy Reiniger This is an article exploring the concept of trust in relation to software code in commercial use, and the relevance in understanding the nature of the trust imparted to software in the context of establishing identity in the digital world. We conclude that, in the machine-space of the digital environment, the concept of creditworthiness developed in the Law Merchant is a useful historical and legal model for enabling trust, and in so doing, for providing a greater degree of reliance on the trust that can be placed on software code, because of the legal implications that follow—or ought to follow. In the global networked information economy, it is important that individuals be given the evidentiary means to assert their informational rights in a system of assured value, in a similar manner that exists with trust based on various forms of credit exchange today. Identity—and therefore a greater degree of trust attributed to software code—is the emerging new credit in the information age, and, we argue, the law should take cognizance of this. Click here to read the article. https://www.onlineidentitytrustnotary.com/about-1-1 daily 0.75 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feb9d8f175ffd115ab172d1/1611708932675-PQSH1XCWH2S199LJVTBG/dark%2Bweb.jpg Online Notarization Law Online Notarization Law: Emerging Trend in Information Governance By Timothy Reiniger Virginia’s Electronic Notaries Act of 2011 has provided the legal framework for the growing national adoption of “online notarization” – electronic notarization by means of webcam or audio-video teleconference technology – wherein a signer who is located anywhere in the world can lawfully “appear” online before a notary public who is physically located in the state of commissioning. And, on July 31, 2018, the United States Department of the Treasury called for online notarization to be enacted in all states. Thirty additional states have enacted the Virginia framework, either in whole or substantial part. In addition, both the Uniform Law Commission’s new amendment to the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts of 2018 (“RULONA”) as well as the National Notary Association’s Model Electronic Notary Act of 2017 (“MENA”) incorporate the key principles of the Virginia legal framework. Original article was published in 2018. Click here for this article and related articles. https://www.onlineidentitytrustnotary.com/the-virginia-digital-identity-law daily 0.75 2021-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feb9d8f175ffd115ab172d1/1611777435689-F7DILW9HCCZYWGBNU2UW/dark+web+3.jpg The Virginia Digital Identity Law The Virginia Digital Identity Law: Legal and Policy Foundations for the Identity Trust Framework Model Timothy S. Reiniger, Jeff Nigriny, and Kyle Matthew Oliver In the physical world, we typically rely on government entities and employers to manage the identity credentialing process. DMVs, Passport offices, and human resource departments are the norm. The digital world, though, is serviced almost exclusively through commercial entities, often at the behest of government entities that would see the privatization of the internet upheld. This paper explores the practical effect of Virginia’s liability safe harbor law approach on participant claims in both federated and user-centric identity management systems in the United States. The law seeks to provide a common legal foundation for identity providers, identity trust frameworks, and the use of trustmarks as emerging approaches to addressing the risk of being held legally responsible for the losses incurred by others based on faulty third party assertions of identity. In an open environment, identity trust framework providers and identity providers face an exorbitant amount of risk based on their central position. They are not currently compensated for this risk, and it would be difficult to alter models to adequately address this through solely commercial means. As such, the system inadvertently incentivizes trust framework providers to push participating identity providers to lower assurance levels and regardless of their compliance capability – as a means of reducing the trust framework operator’s own risk exposure. Click here to read the article. https://www.onlineidentitytrustnotary.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-01-13