[^VC]: Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1 W3C Recommendation 03 March 2022 https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ [^SSNHistory]: See Carolyn Puckett, “The Story of the Social Security Number,” Social Security Administration, July 2009. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html.). See also Kenneth Meiser, “Opening Pandora’s Box: The Social Security Number from 1937-2018,” UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations, June 19, 2018, http://hdl.handle.net/2152/66022. [^RightsOfCitizens]: Willis Hare, “Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens,” https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P5077.pdf, Rand Corporation, August 1973. [^SSNUsageRestrictions]: See “Social Security Numbers: Private Sector Entities Routinely Obtain and Use SSNs, and Laws Limit the Disclosure of This Information.” United States General Accounting Office, 2004. https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/privacy/ssn/gao-04-11.pdf (GAO Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Social Security, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives). See also Barbara Bovbjerg, “Social Security Numbers: Federal and State Laws Restrict Use of SSNs, yet Gaps Remain,” United States General Accounting Office, 2005, https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-05-1016t.pdf (GAO Testimony Before the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection and Committee on Governmental Operations, New York State Assembly.) [^SSNAlternatives]: “News Release: DHS Awards for an Alternative Identifier to the Social Security Number,” US Department of Homeland Security, October 9, 2020, https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2020/10/09/news-release-dhs-awards-alternative-identifier-social-security-number. [^Altman]: Elizabeth Howcroft, and Martin Coulter, “Worldcoin Aims to Set up Global ID Network Akin to India’s Aadhaar,” Reuters, November 2, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/technology/worldcoin-aims-set-up-global-id-network-akin-indias-aadhaar-2023-11-02/. [^LawsOfIdentities]: Kim Cameron, “7 Laws of Identity,” Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog, August 20, 2009, https://www.identityblog.com/?p=1065. [^MOSIP]: “Overview,” MOSIP, 2021, https://docs.mosip.io/1.2.0/overview. [^wallet]: “European Digital Identity,” GitHub, n.d., https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/. [^pilots]: “EU Digital Identity: 4 Projects Launched to Test EUDI Wallet,” European Commission, May 23, 2023, https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-digital-identity-4-projects-launched-test-eudi-wallet. [^bhutan]: Durga Sengupta, “Guess Who’s Getting the World’s First Self-Sovereign National Digital ID?” Rest of World, September 6, 2023, https://restofworld.org/2023/south-asia-newsletter-bhutan-national-digital-id/. [^icard]: Wikipedia, “Information Card,” January 25, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_card. [^CS]: Wikipedia, “Windows CardSpace,” December 14, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CardSpace. [^DID]: “Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) V1.0,” W3C, July 19, 2022, https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/.

[^SCR]: Read: Full Text of the Supreme Court's Verdict in the Aadhaar Case. Of the five judge-bench that delivered the verdict, three justices delivered separate opinions. https://thewire.in/law/aadhaar-judgment-supreme-court-full-text [^OAuth2]:OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization and provides specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices. https://oauth.net/2/ IETF Working Group https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/about/ [^OpenID]: OpenID Connect enables application and website developers to launch sign-in flows and receive verifiable assertions about users across Web-based, mobile, and JavaScript clients. https://openid.net/developers/how-connect-works/ [^Zuboff]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism [^UIDAI]: The official UIDAI site https://uidai.gov.in/en/ [^Inji]: Inji is a user-centric digital credential stack in MOSIP for all types of credentials and identification solutions. https://docs.mosip.io/inji/

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