{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Privacy Podcast","title":"Your Identity Is Broken. Wayne Chang Wants to Fix It.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1064,"description":"Why the future of the internet depends on owning your data and why today’s systems are already failing\n\nWhat if your identity didn’t belong to Big Tech… or even the government?\n\nWhat if it actually belonged to you?\nIn this episode of The Privacy Podcast, host Ben Schiller talks with Wayne Chang, Founder of Spruce ID, to explore one of the most overlooked problems in tech today: identity.\nFrom logging into websites to accessing healthcare, our digital identities are fragmented, insecure, and often completely out of our control. Chang breaks down how we got here and why the current system, built on emails, passwords, and centralized platforms, is fundamentally broken.\n“We want users to control their data flows like a water faucet… under their control.”\n\nFrom “Sign-In with Ethereum” to government-backed digital credentials, this conversation explores a future where identity is portable, private, and owned by the individual.\n\nWhy This Matters\nRight now, your identity lives everywhere and nowhere at the same time.\nIt’s stored in silos across platforms, vulnerable to breaches, and increasingly easy to fake in an era of AI-generated everything.\nAnd the cracks are starting to show.\nChang points to a near-future where identity fraud becomes scalable, cheap, and nearly impossible to detect using today’s systems.\n“We’re going to reach a precipice moment where attacks get cheap enough to execute at scale.”\n\nThe result? A complete breakdown of trust online.\nBut there’s another path forward, one built on cryptography, decentralization, and user control.\n\nWhat We Cover\nWhy today’s identity systems are a “patchwork” and fundamentally insecure\nHow AI and deepfakes are exposing major flaws in digital verification\nThe origin and impact of Sign-In with Ethereum\nWhat digital credentials actually are and why they matter\nWhy governments, healthcare, and finance are key to fixing identity\nThe Utah model and a new policy-first approach to digital ID\nWhy identity should be human-centric,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vpEuAfjPdK-wDcHhqYiQw4VjsckbaPox0yUDwiaMCsg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZmI4/ZTgwY2E4YzI2Zjky/ZGRhZTVkZjIxMzU5/ZjFlNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}