Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has suggested a blockchain-powered ID solution could help tackle cyber abuse and trolling while allowing users to maintain a level of anonymity.

Speaking to New South Whales media outlet The Sydney Morning Herald, Grant said that while anonymity was beneficial for general online use, people hiding backside anonymity online to harm others remained a big problem in society. She said blockchain-powered digital IDs could help strike a balance by hiding user'southward details unless requested by constabulary enforcement.

Inman Grant stated that:

"There's more than that they tin do in terms of their intellectual capability, their access to advanced engineering science, their vast financial resources, to come upwards with ameliorate systems to place who'southward on their platforms and violating their terms of service."

Ms Inman Grant worked at Microsoft during the 1990s and was involved in shaping the controversial Department 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the U.S. which provides social media companies with immunity from liability for user content.

Facebook and Twitter's decision to deplatform sometime U.South. President Donald Trump following the riots on the U.S. Capitol highlighted the difficulties social media companies confront in balancing the desire to protect the public from harmful content while allowing freedom of expression and opinion.

Blockchain-based pseudonymity could play a part in helping users feel comfortable expressing themselves while enabling the authorities to take activity against users inciting violence or harassing others.

The utilize of blockchain engineering science to develop digital ID solutions is being trialed by companies in numerous countries around the earth including Japan, Korea, U.S., and Communist china.

Japanese firm Layer X is building an electronic voting solution using blockchain technology for digital ID in partnership with xID.

Blockchain-based ID has also been explored by Ontology as a tool to better its in-car payment solutions, such as automatic insurance claims in the result of an accident.

In an effort to bring a degree of normality back to the tourism and travel industry subsequently COVID-19, technology companies including ShareRing have developed blockchain-based tracing systems that also double as a traveler'southward digital passport and proof-of-wellness.

Adoption of these solutions is increasing with 1 million Southward Koreans opting into a blockchain-based drivers license solution but four months after it was launched. According to Statista, this represented more than 3% of the entire driving population for that country.