"we created a decentralized, privacy preserving, biometric ID system as the foundation of the Cicada distributed application platform. It’s a completely open Human Unique Identifier (HUID) for everyone on the planet.
It uses biometric markers as an input to public/private keys and a comprehensive layered system of reputation that is dramatically different from today’s concept of reputation systems. We outlined the platform in detail in the original Cicada whitepaper but it remains the most controversial and least understood piece of the system with 90% of the questions we get about IDs. The questions mainly swirl around whether it’s even possible to build a strong ID system, resilient to Sybil attacks, with no central authorities at all.
A common refrain is that it’s “impossible” mostly because it’s never been done and hence people have no frame of reference to compare it against.
We agree that a decentralized ID system is very hard but we don’t agree that it’s impossible. There’s a big difference between impossible and very hard."
FB: "The Cicada project sees the need for a strong, privacy preserving, open ID that’s decentralized and has no central choke points for one simple reason:
It provides the best protection against fraud, abuse, overreach, and authoritarianism.
Some form of digital ID for everyone on the planet is virtually inevitable in the near future. So either we create it ourselves, or someone will do it for us and we will hate the results. It’s as simple as that."
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