Picture a world where
🎓 university diploma cannot be faked
✅ origin of any product can be tracked & verified
🪪 anyone can securely verify official documents
European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) is creating this world.
And they're going open source, with their code now available on code.europa.eu, European Union institutions' open source software repository.
Read more in the article by @EC_OSPO 👉https://europa.eu/!DMkK49
What if someone is trans and doesn't want their deadname in the Blockchain transactions forever?
Because it's hard enough for some Devs to get their deadname removed from software contributions in places where it's possible but projects don't want to.
You can't update a Blockchain ledger. It's the whole point of it.
https://posts.arborelia.net/the-software-heritage-archive-wants-to-deadname-me-forever/
Come to think of it.. doesn't this indicate a missing right in the #GDPR? The right to be forgotten does not cover this.
The right to *exist* with ones true gender.
A person owns their gender. Gender rights allow one to embrace it, identify with it, and requires others to honor that. A person transitioning then entails gender is retroactively changed from birth and ideally IT systems would account for it. Pragmatically legacy systems and regulations can be patched.
Speculation, tangent --
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