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Pat McBennett's avatar

Hiya Jamie - great post again, as ever.

I'm still a bit confused though - as it seems you still see 'Personal Data Stores' and 'Digital Wallets' as two distinct, somehow separate, things.

Again I'd offer my analogy of HTTP and HTTPS - i.e., first we had 'stuff on the Web' via HTTP to 'store and get that stuff'. But then the world realized it really needed to secure that stuff, so we all moved to HTTPS to 'secure the stuff on the web'.

My point is that that move to HTTPS was for *everything* (i.e., https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere - "You no longer need HTTPS Everywhere to set HTTPS by default!"). Today we don't have 'Stuff' (HTTP) and 'Secure Stuff' (HTTPS) - we just have 'Secure Stuff' (HTTPS).

By the same token, I believe a Wallet should be all we need, where *all* my stuff is Wallet-secure by default, including all the stuff I'm happy to share freely with the world.

(It's why I suggested, while still working at Inrupt, that the Inrupt wallet app should atuomatically open up showing a photo of a loved one. It was to emulate my physical wallet today, where I keep my driver's license and credit cards, but *also* where I keep a photo of my missus and kids, a photo (in my wallet) that I'm happy to open and share with the total stranger sitting beside me at a bar.)

So can you help me see what might I be missing here - why should I continue drawing a distinction between my 'Personal Data Store' and my 'Digital Wallet' ?

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Ivan Swiss Glushenkov's avatar

Yes yes yes yes! Let’s talk and act!

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