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As data breaches rise and digital privacy is eroded, centralized identity systems are coming under fire. A new model is gaining ground—one that gives users full control over their personal information.
Among those leading this shift is Vishesh Mistry, Senior AI Scientist at Tech5. The company is moving beyond its biometrics origins to build a fully decentralized digital ID system, with AI playing a key role in securing it.
Vote of no confidence: "We're working towards fully decentralized digital ID. This puts huge emphasis on the data, on privacy, and on security," Mistry explains. Today’s digital ID systems are largely centralized, creating a single point of failure. "When that happens, there is a big roar and the public loses confidence in the government," says Mistry.
What's mine is mine: To prevent breaches, Tech5 is shifting to a decentralized model where users store data on their own devices. "The user will own the data. Not the government, not the verifying party, and not any third-party services," Mistry explains.
That shift makes large-scale hacks far less likely. "Hackers would need to hack every single phone or device to get access to data, which is protected using layers of encryption," he says. The goal is simple: "Privacy and security have always been a pain point in the biometrics industry and we want to eliminate that altogether."