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Joni Brennan

President of the DIACC

Joni Brennan is President of the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), a role she has held since 2015. She has worked in digital identity standards for more than 20 years, beginning with the Liberty Alliance in 2003 and including six years as Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative. At DIACC she helped members co-develop the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework and oversees its certification program. She also chairs IDPro, the global professional association for identity practitioners.

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Building Digital Trust in Canada: What the PCTF Means, What It Aims to Achieve, and the Role Technology Providers Are Playing

Opening an account, applying for a mortgage or accessing a public service increasingly happens through a digital channel. In each of these interactions, someone must trust that the person on the other side is who they claim to be. Canada already has many of the pieces needed to build that trust: public registries, provincial digital […]