Identity Management Unchained - Taking the Metaverse Red Pill

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The European 'Digital Identity Wallet' proposed by the EU’s executive commission is a smartphone app that would let users store electronic forms of identification and other official documents. With the emergence of decentralized software solutions - such as blockchains and graphs - efforts are being made to mitigate against the hegemony of account-based systems, and return ownership of digital data and activity to the individual. This legacy of systems evolution and centralization can at the core be attributed to the implementation of database technologies, and consequent connection of these data siloes to networks such as the internet.