Challenges of User Data Privacy in SSI Self-Sovereign Identity Verifiable Credentials for Autonomous Building Access During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Denver Naicker1*
Mackaylan M. Moodley1
- 1Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
Self-Sovereign Identity is an emerging field along-side development of blockchain technology. It's use cases are primarily surrounding identity and credential management advocating the privacy of user details during the verification process. Our endeavour was to test and implement the features promoted for Self-Sovereign Identity through open and closed source frameworks utilizing a scenario of building access management to adhere to health risk and safety questionnaires during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our investigation identifies whether user data privacy could be ensured through verifiable credentials and identifies whether business practices would need to evolve to mitigate storing personal data in a centralized manner.
Keywords: self-sovereign identity, Verifiable Credentials, Building Access, Autonomous, Privacy, Health and safety, Risk Assessment Font: Not Bold
Received: 22 Jan 2024;
Accepted: 20 Feb 2024.
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* Correspondence: Mx. Denver Naicker, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa