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Actors, Objects, and Linked Data

Practitioner informative

Maintainer: Daniel Hardman · 2022-11-16 · checked 2026-10-15

A position paper by Daniel Hardman arguing that data about people is ethically special and that binding W3C Verifiable Credentials to Linked Data through a required @context grafts human subjects into a global semantic graph built for correlation. It recommends making @context optional, at least for credentials about people. For participants in verifiable credential standards.

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