Eric Welton- discussions with Myanmar Responsible Business Coalition - tricky situation with hostile relationships in government - establishing a biometric identity - difficult choice as someone is going to do it.  Can we do it in a more responsible, less harmful way.  May be useful to have a session on this in this group.  Difficult ethical questions for the team.  Interesting presentation on how digital ID can be abused.

sankarshan- biometric topic seems to be settling down from aid organisations - have to use biometrics, main focus is now on mitigating harms.  Myanmar, Afghanistan and other examples.  Uganda for example, optimistic programme, under-enrollment.  (the harms of untrustworthy systems) - now starting w/genetic profiling!

"The genie is out of the bottle"

Jo Spencer Activity on NSW gov initiative - driving license initiative hacked, DNA & biometrics further reinforce the argument. 

• We need to be better, we need to be very aware that the information we're sharing is not as secure as we'd hoped.  Law of Minimal Disclosure for Constrained Use.  Need to be cryptographically secured.  Driving new projects.  Victor Dominello  (NSW gov)  Inclusion focus on services for citizens, also allied with indigenous people programme.  Now an important process.  All exclusion factors considered (digital, literacy, social, political, disability, financial)

sankarshanMinimisation is not suitable for some interactions, e.g. Medical Records - much more important for secure and trustworthy data payload /  exchange.  Also Financial Transactions not very well suited to VC's.

Jo Spencer use of verifiable presentations which present derived data.

sankarshan taxonomy & semantics - quality & classification of data also needed

VC's are not the solution for many forms of data.  

Biggest harm is derived data sets from small data sets.

Eric Welton  - Use cases - all non-cash transactions will be exposed to government, e.g. national security / tax collection is given as purpose coming in ??.  Remember problems of correlation highlighted by Daniel Hardman

Also use case of VCs to convey health information - presentation that key emergency information for medical purposes (e.g. in accident) - could use biometrics to unlock the data for emergency responders.  VC is a PDF - convenience / emergency service.  Similar to ICE contact, could have ICE Credential. Could be linked to IATA - Good Health Pass

sankarshan Must be freeform data.  Accept that this is a new attack surface.  

John Phillips Humanitech conference - could be some good material & input to this discussion.  Great discussion and material. I'm now seeing an obvious connection between this work, and the work of the Humanitech organisation here in Australia (founded by the Australian Red Cross) who have been thinking about how they might "ensure frontier technologies benefit people and society". I was at, and spoke briefly, at their 2022 conference (https://humanitechsummit.org/2022/) - they've been considering the potential harms of the mis-application of frontier technology for some time.

Review of notes and insights from the AGENCY talk at HXWG last week.  Here is the wiki page 

On fake news (and news) there's a good 20 mins conversation from Davos hosted by Polkadot -

Rumsfeld Structure to scope  "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.^{[1]" (Source: Wiki)}

Also for discussion see this Miro Board

• differentiate between data exchange and identity as legal identification
• See comments in Miro Board
• Agree importance of Unknown Unknowns and use of resilience / vulnerability context relationships