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Before we can proceed with your high quality identity credential we'll need to take steps to protect your privacy.

Higher quality credentials certify that information about you is true. In order to do that of course the certifying authority needs to have that information.

We at Reliable Identities believe that general privacy statements do not provide sufficient protection for any personal information beyond name and email address. For that reason we start with a Personal Information Ownership Infrastructure which provides technical and legal means that lets you truly own, and control the use of, information about yourself. 

Those who need access to your personal information - starting with us - will need to sign your Personal Nondisclosure Agreement, which recognizes two forms of legal protection of your information: copyright and secrecy ("trade secret").

Let's go over the steps by which you'll establish your Personal Information Ownership Infrastructure, which in turn will enable us to proceed with your high quality Reliable identity credential.

1. You've already completed the first step by getting your Provisional Certificate.
   

2. Since we'll be assisting you in establishing your claim of ownership of information about yourself, we will need a license from you to use some of that information in the process. After all, it's your information, not ours, and we need your permission to use it. (Shouldn't everyone treat your information that way?) With that permission from you we'll create your Personal Nondisclosure Agreement.
   

3. Then we'll digitally sign your PersonalNDA.
   

4. Ownership of information is accomplished with two legal devices: copyright and trade secret. Since copyright law covers collections of information called "works," your information will take the form of an autobiographical reference work, a collection of facts about yourself, starting with a few items of information that will be requested (under NDA) today.
   

5. We will take additional steps that will substantiate your claim of identity.  Depending upon the strength of enrollment score required, those steps may take the form of online questions, phone calls, or an oath performed in a face-to-face enrollment session with a notary, with biometric and video information capured.
   

6. After you successfully answer those questions we will create a second certificate, an identity certificate that can be relied upon by those who need to know that you are really who you say you are in a variety of settings.
   

7. Your identity certificate will be stored in your browser's files or elsewhere. Since Osmio never obtains private keys, we will give you instructions on how to make a backup copy of the key that goes with your identity certificate.

Our first step will be to create your Personal Nondisclosure Agreement.