The Privacy Stack
Privacy news, compliance updates, and the case for identity you control.

I Fly to Bangkok Tonight. On Friday, Prompt Pass Stops Being a Pilot.
Prompt Pass becomes publicly available on 14 August 2026. What I am doing in Bangkok with Thailand Post, TKC and Transformational, and what national-scale privacy KYC changes for ShareRing.

I Fly to Bangkok Tonight. On Friday, Prompt Pass Stops Being a Pilot.
Prompt Pass becomes publicly available on 14 August 2026. What I am doing in Bangkok with Thailand Post, TKC and Transformational, and what national-scale privacy KYC changes for ShareRing.

Every KYC Provider You Have Used Kept the Documents. Our New No-Code Identity Verification Page Starts There.
Our new no-code identity verification page is live. 13 task types, four ways to deploy, a 14 day free trial, and your customers documents never stored.

144 Years of Delivering Paper. Prompt Pass Is What Thailand Post Delivers Next.
Thailand Post marked its 144th anniversary on 3 August 2026 by announcing that Prompt Pass, the first digital document wallet in Thailand built on verifiable credentials, will be available on 14 August. A joint effort by TKC, Transformational and ShareRing.

What the July Update Means for SHR Holders
Rohan published the company update this week. It covered Thailand, Australia and product. This post covers the part it did not: how that work connects to ShareLedger, what SHR does, and what it does not do.

Three Fronts, One Quarter: Inside ShareRing’s Busiest Stretch Yet
I write a lot of blogs about problems. Broken age checks, data honeypots, compliance deadlines nobody is ready for. This one is different. This one

Six Months Into Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Law, “Reasonable Steps” Is Still Doing All the Work
Six months into Australia’s social media minimum age law, eSafety’s own compliance findings show retry-until-you-pass age checks and untouched legacy accounts. Here’s what the public record shows, and where ShareRing’s Age Assurance Trial work fits.

Digital Me Is Here: The World’s Only Private AI Assistant Opens Its Waitlist
Digital Me is the world’s only private agentic AI assistant. Every user gets their own private AI server, credentials stay in an on-device Vault, and 13 real, executable skills ship at launch, built on ShareRing’s SSI infrastructure since 2018. The waitlist is open now, and waitlist members will test the MVP.

Thailand Post Just Launched Verifiable Credentials. This Is What National Adoption Looks Like.
A national postal service just started issuing verifiable credentials to the public. Not a pilot. Not a roadmap slide. A live service, in citizens’ hands,

When Birth Certificates Get Hacked, the Database Was Always the Problem
Pattaya Mail reported birth certificates being hacked in Thailand. The fix is not a bigger wall. It is removing the honey pot. Privacy KYC moves identity off central servers and onto user-held credentials.
Thailand’s Digital ID Framework Is Already in Phase 2. Most of the World Hasn’t Noticed.
Most countries are still arguing about what a digital ID should look like. Thailand has stopped arguing. ETDA’s Phase 2 Digital ID Framework runs 2025 to 2027 and turns transcripts, national IDs and driver’s licences into verifiable credentials. Here’s what is already public, and why it matters.