HeyJaredA Digital Identity Digest
Welcome to A Digital Identity Digest, brought to you by Heather Flanagan of Spherical Cow Consulting. Here, we explore the evolving world of digital identity on the web.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #163 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest episodes
Someone Still Has to Accept the Credential (opens the original)
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Discover how digital wallets and verifiable credentials are moving from pilots into real-world adoption, while revealing a critical gap: someone still has to accept the credential. Heather examines the verifier’s perspective, particularly as regulation accelerates digital identity adoption across Europe. This episode explores why compliance alone is not enough to create meaningful value. Heather considers how credentials could reduce manual review, fraud, data retention, and onboarding friction,
A Field Guide to Identity Conferences: Which One Should You Attend? (opens the original)
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Discover how identity conferences can help practitioners stay current on digital identity, emerging standards, regulation, cybersecurity, and the challenges organizations are preparing to solve. Heather examines why choosing the right event matters when budgets, travel, and time are limited, and why there is no single best conference for everyone. This episode explores how to match conferences to your goals, whether you need enterprise identity insight, European policy perspectives, authenticati
Standards Transparency: Public Isn’t the Same as Understandable (opens the original)
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Heather examines why making standards information public is not enough to make the work understandable. This episode explores the growing challenge of navigating specifications, document status, provenance, working group activity, and related standards across digital identity, AI, security, privacy, and other overlapping technical domains. Learn how structured standards data, APIs, and AI tools can make research more efficient without replacing human judgment. Heather explains why better transpa
Keeping Up With Standards Without Pretending You Can Keep Up (opens the original)
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Heather explores why keeping up with standards development does not mean tracking everything. This episode looks at how a lightweight standards radar can surface emerging work across digital identity, AI, authorization, credentials, and related technologies, while recognizing that new ideas appear far faster than any individual can follow. Discover how automation, structured public data, and human judgment can work together to identify what deserves closer attention. Heather explains why Interne
Staying Useful in a Geopolitical Internet: Reflections from IETF 126 (opens the original)
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Learn why nation state politics are increasingly shaping technical standards and the future of the Internet. Drawing on reflections from IETF 126, Heather examines how regulatory pressure, geopolitical interests, and competing views of privacy, security, openness, and interoperability can influence standards development and individual contributors. Explore how to participate thoughtfully when larger forces enter the standards process. Heather considers practical ways to evaluate proposals beyond
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Apple #163 · US
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