How Glyph Enables You To Control Your Own Information Without Us Seeing It
Glyph enables you to take control of your personal data. We do this by providing you open tools to capture your information from official sources such as your drivers license, or from technology and services you interact with, such as location services on your phone. Glyph chunks that information down into shareable items which we call particles. Your entire identity is made up of these particles, i.e. your name, your date of birth etc. Glyph gives you tools to be able to share those.

Glyph is the interface. Our aim is to help you share the data that is already available. In version one, we help you store the information, heavily encrypted, in a secure location. Soon, you will be able to choose where you store that information: whether it’s on a blockchain service, your own device, or a home server like Daplie. Because it’s yours, you control where its stored.
Glyph then provides you the tools, such as through the app or via our open APIs, to be able to share it with others in a way that is secure, transparent, and completely trackable.
You record your information by scanning it from official documents, or by pulling it from other sources, such as your social media, your phone, or wearables. When you are asked to share this information, you can choose to share it or not. You have complete control.
We foresee a future where you may have choice about how much you share. For example, in order to take a test drive at a car dealership, they should ask you for your drivers license. Perhaps if you choose to also disclose your income bracket, your daily commute location data, your investment risk score* and a browser score* (I explain those here), then they will be able to better point you to the exact right car for you. You save them time and increase their ability to sell you the right car. In return they give you a discount. You get faster, cheaper, more tailored service. They close more sales. Everyone wins.
Along with this, Glyph is working on three different ways for you to share information with companies you interact with.
1. There is the old fashioned way where you just give all your information to them via a form or a document and they keep it on their servers. (Not ideal)
2. A way to show that information, without them needing to keep it. Like showing a drivers license to a doorman. They have seen it, but they didn’t record the info. They record the process by which they are compliant, not the actual information. (It would be strange — and disconcerting — if the doorman wrote this down every time, but that’s exactly what happens on line.)
3. Yes/No questions. We call this a knowledgeless proof, where a question is answered without either party knowing the information behind it. For example, “are you over 18?” “Yes, I am.” Note that the person asking the question doesn’t know the age or the birth date of the other person, but they know enough.
We are building Glyph in a way that provides you to the tools and flexibility to own your own data and use it however you see fit. The best part is, that at no time can we see any of your data, so perhaps for the first time since the internet was created, you are in control of your own digital identity.
