During next week’s MWC Barcelona conference South Korea’s largest mobile company SK Telecom (SKT) plans to sign an
agreement with Deutsche Telekom for blockchain digital identity. Internationally Deutsche Telekom’s high profile brand is T-Mobile.
SKT and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs aim to develop the digital identity platform for use in authentication, access control and contracts.
While the announcement doesn’t use the term “
self-sovereign identity” it states that users will be able to manage their own personal information on their smartphones, avoiding identity theft. One of the most infamous breaches was the theft of 143 million identities from credit reference company Equifax.
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