About FreeTrust.orgFreeTrust provides a user interface to manage personal information resources in the identity ecosystem (UMA, XACML, OpenID, SCIM, LDAP, etc.) built on blockchain identities and a Decentralized Distributed social networking platform (Synereo) that enables user trusted identity, presence, security and privacy for the individual with a consensus mechanism in Cyberspace that grows collaborative trust organically. As trust is extended to others it grows into trust networks, organizations, federations and global identity ecosystem connected globally using blockchain technology. Users can develop trustworthy identity without having to trust any authority. Then trust built among individuals can become trusted in communities and ultimately trusted by governments in national identity ecosystems. It promotes global assurance that an entity participating in an interaction is a trusted human, organizations, service, or device, revealing information about the entity only when authorized on a need to know bases. FreeTrust puts the user in total control of their personal information and allows them to build their own trust networks to become an equal participant in the identity ecosystem. It gives everyone the freedom to not trust the public, governments, corporations, or anyone with private information they do not need to know.The Identity Ecosystem Current State -- The emerging identity ecosystem in the US supports users' identity OpenId persona to be authenticated only once for access to most all systems used. You will be able to control access to your bank account and your home security system all using the identity provider of your choice, the one you trust with your personal information. This provides you some assurance no one else is acting as you. User managed authorization (UMA) standards allow you to easily give your brother access to your bank account, or people on a friends list access permission of a file you own. The National Institute of Standards (NIST) boasts that you can even be your own identity provider, running your own IdP service and be part of the national identity ecosystem yourself. But, who will trust you to be your own identity provider? Unless some trusted provider trusts you, your identity will be worthless despite the fact that you are the best source for most identity factors about yourself. The goal of FreeTrust is to construct a mechanism to connect bottom up trust with top down trust, putting the user in control of personal information while making systems more trustworthy. Insuring trust from the bottom up is more effective than from the top down. For bottom up trust no one can be forced to trust anything, FreeTrust gives the individual freedom to trust only what they actually trust. This gives them a feeling of safety. Not everyone trusts Google, Microsoft or GitHub individually. Some think those systems have already been compromised or inevitably will be compromised. They do not trust those organizations to handle their information in their best interest. They object to giving personal information to every website they go to in order to use it. Some view being forced to use GitHub or any site they must trust with their information as a potentially dangerous invasion of their privacy and threat to their personal information, intellectual property and work product. Some refuse to collaborate using any big sites.FreeTrust.orgFTO_243a93e4-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de10FreeTrust, a Militia in the Information Wars, Protectring Privacy in CyberspaceProvenSecure Solution, Inc.A Cyber Security FirmFacebookIt is suggested that the DApp model will replace centralized services like Facebook, Google, GitHub, etc. in time and become dominant in the next phase of the internet.GoogleGitHubStrong anonymous translucent identity with trusted interaction ... both trustworthy to be safe and opaque to protect personal privacy._243a95ec-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de10To construct a mechanism to connect bottom up trust with top down trust, putting the user in control of personal information while making systems more trustworthy._243a96be-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de10TrustDecentralizationFreeTrust is a distributed application implementing an interface to a mashup of APIs of existing open source distributed applications, installable by the user, which are already available to provide most of the underlying functionality... The new architecture and business model sweeping the internet is the trustworthy Decentralized Application (DApp) that is open source, runs everywhere, has no central authority, runs autonomously and has built in economically scalability. more... DApps are different in that they are owned by no one and run all over the network. If properly developed and deployed, you would need to hack into more than half of the systems on the network to break the security. It is an algorithm and API for achieving consensus among peers leading to a global consensus of a record of transactions without any centralized system involved. Distributing the application with end to end encryption means the network need not be exposed to any private information and need not be trusted. There is no central company or system that might be corrupted or targeted to harvest personal information not shared publicly.Open SourceFreeTrust proposes a pilot integrating existing open source platforms, employing existing standards to provide individuals a private information resource service obeyed in their trusted networks. The pilot will demonstrate local grassroots trust which can build into organizational trust. It will enable trust in personal, organizational and global blockchains, in addition to traditional sources of trusted identity and authorizations.StandardsIdentityTrusted Identity, Privacy, and Safety in Cyberspace ... The individual, as his own identity provider, may be trusted if he has been reliable. It will demonstrate user managed identity, presence, security, privacy and uniqueness and the related authorizations in a proven private distributed social networking environment. Privacy is essential such that the individual user controls what information is true and does not misrepresent him by his own judgement and exposure that may be limited to who needs to know it.PrivacyFreeTrust represents a vision of an inevitable future of cyberspace giving users the privacy they deserve while enabling the development of personal webs of trust integrated anonymously with global identity ecosystems by trustworthy consensus mechanisms.SafetyCollaborationEnabling freedom of trust is important as trust enables collaboration, which enables innovation, which enables enterprise, which enables the evolution of a better quality of life.InnovationEvolutionQuality of LifeConsensusFreeTrust aims to accelerate adoption of DApp's by providing a trustworthy framework for decentralized trust and consensus supporting a mashup of DApp's and their currencies It is a realization of the "Web of Trust". It will link user authorizations between national identity ecosystems and blockchain identity and extend the ability to set permissions on posts, bank account and thermostat in a distributed social networking environment with proven levels of security and privacy.FreedomIt will give users complete freedom to choose what they trust maintaining privacy with trusted identity and trusted security. FreeTrust takes the potential of trustworthy transactions, as in Stellar and eris machine consensus and applies it to human consensus. FreeTrust jumps onto the Stellar bandwagon and takes it beyond trustworthy transactions to trustworthy identity, presents, security and privacy.ChoiceNetworkingSocial Networking Component -- FreeTrust unites the world of social networking and user managed authorization in a safe environment facilitating trusted identities with maximum privacy. It integrates social networking persona with block chain identities and national identity ecosystems such that the users controls access inside and outside the social networking environment to their personal information, communications, intellectual property and even their bank account and smart refridgerator. Identities, access rules and user authorization managed in the social networking environment of FreeTrust develop OpenID Connect identities trusted by the user and accepted first within trust communities with the potential to be accepted ultimately by global consensus. The distributed social networking environment ensures privacy with end to end encryption provide a safe alternative to legacy systems like FaceBook and insecure email.Earned TrustEliminate the imposition of extending trust that has not been earned on the individual._243a977c-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de101There are numerous issues today that will lead us to the next phase of the internet. Identities on the internet are generally very weak. Where there is any assurance at all it is usually just that a confirmation email was received by the claimed email address. There is no assurance it was received by an actual person rather than some mechanized autoresponder. Personal information is exposed to more and more systems directly and by linking accounts sharing contact lists. Users are forced to extend their trust to whatever services their contacts use. The list of services one must trust grows continually; PayPal, Facebook, GitHub, LinkedIn, and so on.. Due to exposure, it can be expected that personal information will be used in a manner that ultimately violates the user's trust. The new internet must be trustworthy. There is a recognized need to both put people back in control of their personal information and to have stronger assurance of the identity of people, organizations, services and devices that are part of an online interaction. FreeTrust applies a next generation architecture to eliminate the imposition of extending trust that has not been earned on the individual. At the same time, it empowers people, organizations, services and devices with a strong identity having both greater value and safety in the coming phase of the internet. FreeTrust is an architecture and an idea whose time has come.Trustworthiness & AnonymityEnable individuals to develop a trustworthy anonymous identity online that is good everywhere for their persona._243a9858-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de101.1Identity StrengthEmpower people, organizations, services and devices with a strong identity having both greater value and safety_243a9934-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de102PeopleOrganizationsUniversal IDEnable individuals to prove their identity once instead of to each site they visit._243a9a10-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de102.1Security & PrivacyEmpower everyone to use FreeTrust with proven security and privacy rather than insecure email, chat and social networks._243a9b00-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de102.2Need & PermissionEnable users to designate who needs to know and who is allowed to see information._243a9bdc-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de102.3Instead of a “To:” list you have a "who needs to know?" and "who's allowed to see?"New IdentitiesEnable users to seed new FreeTrust identities._243a9cd6-b429-11e5-a23a-2072ca82de102.4In this manner you seed new FreeTrust identities from whom permission will be requested if you want to share each others information resources. They then become FreeTrust users.2016-01-05http://freetrust.org/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net