How Microsoft Plan to Empower Users to Own and Control Personal Data

Microsoft presented a vast blockchain-related plan: a decentralized identity (DID) network built atop of the bitcoin network, which can potentially empower users all over the internet to take control over their personal data and content.

Titled the Identity Overlay Network (ION), the infrastructure lets users obtain control over their own data via the management of their Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

DID allows users to control their own data and content — including login details and photos, which is not currently possible on most social media platforms that store such data on their private, centralized servers.

Full article: Decentralized Identity: How Microsoft (and Others) Plan to Empower Users to Own and Control Personal Data