But now with meronymity, like in the Taiwan digital identity wallet, you can make a proof called a zero-knowledge proof that only proves, attests that you’re over 18 or over 16 or however old is required, but it doesn’t say anything about your birthday or birth year. And you can also make a proof that you are a resident of Taipei without revealing your address or your name. And so this enables each aspect of us to participate authentically in communities and offline transactions, but without sacrificing our privacy, without getting doxxed from the internet. And so this switch from identities to credentials—selectively disclosed verifiable credentials—I think is absolutely key if we are going to run data coalitions, data cooperatives that take the data future into community hands.

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