The State of Digital Identity: Privacy, Standards, and What It Means to Prove Who You Are
What it means to prove who you are in a digital world — the standards, the privacy tradeoffs, and the policy decisions that shape how identity works for everyone.
What it means to prove who you are in a digital world — the standards, the privacy tradeoffs, and the policy decisions that shape how identity works for everyone. Calvin walks through the real engineering, policy, and privacy tradeoffs of creating and launching LA Wallet at Envoc, the first legal digital driver's license app in the United States (Envoc divested it in December 2025), anchored by the NoPhoneHome privacy principles: purely optional, no copies, nothing extra.
What the session covers
- How mobile driver's licenses work technically and legally: the RPO, the cryptographic binding, and the trust chain
- The privacy-preserving design patterns that make digital ID trustworthy — purely optional, never mandated
- How ISO 18013-5 shapes the future of interoperable digital credentials across borders
- What state and federal policymakers need to understand about mDL deployment before they fund it
- Why personal data should live at its source on the device and nowhere else — where nothing is stored, there is nothing to breach
- Selective disclosure: the principle that people should always share only what's necessary, nothing more
- Live demo: walking through the verification flow end-to-end, from citizen phone to verifier terminal
Ideal audience
Government agencies, policy makers, technology leaders, standards bodies, and enterprise teams evaluating digital identity infrastructure.
Formats
- Keynote
Length45-60 minutes