Mastercard’s Reusable Digital Identity Network

In this episode of Identi3, Nick Lambert is joined by Sarah Clark, Mastercard’s Senior Vice President of Digital Identity, to talk about Mastercard’s privacy-preserving, interoperable, re-usable digital identity network.

Agenda

0:00 Intro
1:28 Sarah’s background
5:37 The importance of preserving user privacy
8:21 What is a re-usable digital identity? Why do we need it?
14:00 What are the ingredients necessary to make re-usable digital identity happen?
19:34 Is re-usable digital identity a business differentiator?
22:32 Notable Mastercard digital identity projects
33:22 Why Sarah believes “Verifiable Credentials are a key component of the future of digital ID”
34:17 The future of digital identity
36:42 Using Verifiable Credentials to potentially combat deepfakes