> But there are also private, non-governmental vendors that verify your physical ids and create verified credentials for you. In that case, the private DI vendor is the issuer of the verified credentials.
But who's going to trust those vendors? This is the job of the government IMO, one of the few things you just can't rely on the private sector for. I definitely don't want my birth certificate credential tied to, say, Google :D the Government cannot , for example, remove my credentials because I said something polemic, while Google (and infamously Twitter) most definitely can and seem quite happy to do if they can.
Re:Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:48PM
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> But who's going to trust those vendors?
We will find out in the coming years...
But yes indeed, private companies do not have much valuable credentials to offer. There just aren't that many categories of personal data you'd ever want to have in a wallet.