Are you in control of your identity?
It's time researchers took control of their identity back. Our cooperative was built by researchers and research-infrastructure professionals who understand both the daily realities and the systemic needs of digital scholarship.
We started with a simple question: why shouldn't researchers control their own identity verification? Think of airport security — the airline controls the entire verification process and owns the results. Online, that's the norm. We invert it.
Inverting control to researchers
This inversion of control makes researchers stewards of their own identity verification — just as they hold their passports and licenses in the real world and choose where to present them. Parity between the real world and online is BYOIP: Bring Your Own Identity Proofing.
Privacy first, as applied practice
This is not a retrofit: privacy is prioritized through design, development, and operations, with certification under the US Department of Commerce ITA Data Privacy Framework. Identity proofing is about presentation and validation, not revealing document details.
- Evidence markers — fine-grained yes/no statements, like "is multi-factor authentication enabled?"
- Validation values — composed of one or more evidence markers, all of which must be true
An interactive data-controls console presents evidence markers, validation values, and management tools with a full audit trail: what you are saying about you, and to whom.
The call to community
We cannot build in isolation. Review our privacy policy and principles, join as a launch partner to test APIs, or become a pre-launch tester with a waived first-year membership fee. Identity verification should serve you — not the other way around.
Originally published at https://verime.coop/blog/are-you-in-control-of-your-identity