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More importantly how individuals can have more control on their identity attributes using decentralized design. We will learn about the emerging decentralized identity standard and how this work can enable broader credentialing use cases.</p> <p><strong>Title of Talk 2: “Can’t be Evil”—Building the Decentralized Web</strong><br /> <strong>Synopsis:</strong> We are increasingly seeing a digital Web that is facing censorship, traffic snooping and prone to disruption due to failure of services controlled by a small set of organizations or governments. It is riddled with data breaches, and data misuse by the companies whose services we use. The advent of decentralization technologies has brought the promise of re-architecting the Web from ground up to be resilient against such threats, and the one that puts the users in control of the privacy and security of their data. 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