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# On KERI: a way not to reveal more personal info than you need to

A blog post by Doc Searls on how people disclose only what a situation calls for offline while online identity is less orderly. He draws on Kim Cameron's laws of identity and presents KERI as a promising approach to digital credentials, with links to resources, while noting he is still learning about it. For general readers.

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Source: https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/10/22/keri/ (license not recorded).
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