take matters into their own hands one possible solution the digital identity wallet designed by edmund lowe an american citizen who lives in the north of thailand it uses decentralized block chain technology to ensure data security so he is a digital identity wallet that the user controls and they store their information that can be identity documents like a passport and it could be identity data like i'm an american here's my birthday and it can be verified claims like i've proven to this notary on this date that i'm american and i can share just that fact with someone else. first visited the country to take part in a thai boxing match and stayed to set up his startup. now he's fighting against the commodification of internet users data. i don't think that people are really aware of what happened to their data or at their data is being used by some it's a very large companies mechanism to feed them more ads or sell them something or do marketing or advertising the companies can misuse the data misappropriate the data of the data and what we need to do is decentralize our identity systems a