Our Advantage
The 1Kosmos Privacy by Design Advantage
By design, 1Kosmos offers a comprehensive solution to address the challenges of effectively managing user privacy. Leveraging advanced technologies like blockchain and biometrics, 1Kosmos provides secure identity verification and authentication, ensuring that users’ personal information remains protected against unauthorized access and misuse.
The privacy and security of user biometrics and other personally identifiable information (PII) comply with GDPR and 230 other GDPR-like regulations worldwide.
This privacy-by-design approach enables end users to view and approve or reject the sharing of all information requested by online services they wish to access. All personally identifiable information (PII) is encrypted end-to-end and never exposed.
Users approve or reject sharing requests directly with the applications to which they connect without any third-party intermediary having access to their data – no external public key server, host messaging server, etc., have access to the keys or plaintext messages. Additionally, 1Kosmos and its customers cannot access the user data.
The captured PII data is encrypted and written to our private, permissioned blockchain, ensuring privacy, security, and complete auditability. Only the enrolled user can access the private key required to access and share their information at any time and with any online service.
The 1Kosmos privacy bydesign framework solution exceeds FIDO, NIST 800-63-3, UK DIATF, and iBeta DEA ISO/IEC 30107-3 security standards.
Certification and Compliance
1Kosmos is certified to FIDO2, NIST 800-63-3, ISO/IEC 30107-3, UK DIATF, SOC2 and ISO 27001. Our platform ensures there is no central honeypot of user information or a user store for hackers to attack. 3rd parties do not have administrative access to user information.
100% User Managed
1Kosmos empowers users to have the authority to govern the sharing and exposure of their data. Users are given a private key at the time of onboarding, to control access to personally identifiable information (PII). This means that only the user, with their unique private key, can access their PII data, guaranteeing utmost security and privacy.
Consent-Driven
Immediately after an end user downloads the 1Kosmos app, the application requires the end user to acknowledge the general consent conditions, including the validation of the end user’s documents. After consent, captured data will be under the user’s control. The PII data can now only be shared with the user’s explicit consent to do so.
Advance Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics (PPDSA)
1Kosmos includes the use of privacy preserving technologies, including on-device processing, neural network cryptography, and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to protect each user’s biometric privacy and exempt the system from privacy law obligations.
Data Capture
The capture and storage of end-user data will be managed on the end-user device (phone) or web wallet (if appless). The end user will fully control saving, sharing, and deleting the information. The end user will continue to have full control when data is shared with service
providers. 1Kosmos offers customizable data retention policies. By default, no identity data is retained, ensuring maximum privacy and security.