https://essence.digital/insightsNotes on verification, consent and data that stays yours.en-gbhttps://essence.digital/insights/checks-that-stay-currenthttps://essence.digital/insights/checks-that-stay-currentThu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTA sanctions check goes stale when the lists change. Essence's screening is built to record what each decision rested on, re-screen when lists change, and keep the screened person's details in-country.https://essence.digital/insights/when-an-ai-agent-asks-for-your-datahttps://essence.digital/insights/when-an-ai-agent-asks-for-your-dataTue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTAn AI agent acting for a person should hold a narrow, expiring, countable slice of their consent, never their credentials. Delegated capabilities on Essence are built that way.https://essence.digital/insights/one-set-of-sharing-termshttps://essence.digital/insights/one-set-of-sharing-termsSat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTCouncils on the same service write similar data-sharing agreements again and again. On Essence, the terms such an agreement sets are configuration, so one set written once can be applied by many organisations.https://essence.digital/insights/over-state-pension-agehttps://essence.digital/insights/over-state-pension-ageSat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTA service that needs to know someone is over State Pension age rarely needs their date of birth. Essence passes the answer, not the record: only the fields asked for, or only a signed answer.https://essence.digital/insights/telling-services-oncehttps://essence.digital/insights/telling-services-onceSat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTFamilies tell health visitors, nurseries, GPs and councils the same things because each service keeps its own copy. A record the family holds, shared field by field under consent, lets them tell it once.https://essence.digital/insights/the-people-layer-of-data-sharinghttps://essence.digital/insights/the-people-layer-of-data-sharingSat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTInfrastructure answers how data travels between organisations. Data about people also needs a record of whose it is, why it is shared, on what basis, and who relied on it. That is the layer Essence builds.https://essence.digital/insights/consent-with-a-purpose-and-a-receipthttps://essence.digital/insights/consent-with-a-purpose-and-a-receiptTue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTA consent record helps later only if it says what it was for, until when and what the person was shown. Essence grants now carry a purpose, a fixed end, a legal basis where declared, and that context.https://essence.digital/insights/proving-when-as-well-as-whathttps://essence.digital/insights/proving-when-as-well-as-whatFri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTA signature shows what was agreed, but its algorithms age. Essence keeps long-term evidence apart, can have it dated by an outside authority and renewed, and exports it for anyone to check offline.https://essence.digital/insights/getting-ready-for-post-quantumhttps://essence.digital/insights/getting-ready-for-post-quantumWed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMTA quantum computer threatens key exchange and signatures, not vault content. Every encrypted record on Essence names its algorithm, and in September we added a post-quantum signature for long-lived evidence.https://essence.digital/insights/supplier-verification-uae-vathttps://essence.digital/insights/supplier-verification-uae-vatThu, 24 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMTThe UAE's new rules put the burden on the buyer to show it checked its suppliers before recovering input VAT. Essence puts each supplier's status in front of the payment, and keeps a record of every decision.https://essence.digital/insights/selective-disclosure-and-predicate-proofshttps://essence.digital/insights/selective-disclosure-and-predicate-proofsThu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMTSelective disclosure shows a verifier only the fields it asks for; a predicate check shows only the answer. Essence has built both, and is exact about who sees the value behind each.https://essence.digital/insights/digital-trust-six-dimensionshttps://essence.digital/insights/digital-trust-six-dimensionsThu, 10 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMTA Dubai panel argued that digital trust goes beyond regulation, across six dimensions. Essence builds several of them into its architecture, starting from a server with no key to your content.https://essence.digital/insights/recovering-a-vault-without-a-back-doorhttps://essence.digital/insights/recovering-a-vault-without-a-back-doorFri, 04 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMTEssence holds no key to your vault, so there is no reset for anyone to abuse. Since our September release, a 24-word recovery phrase that never leaves your device reopens it.https://essence.digital/insights/reusable-attestations-in-europehttps://essence.digital/insights/reusable-attestations-in-europeThu, 27 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTUnder eIDAS 2.0, a qualified attestation carries a legal presumption of accuracy across the EU. Our review recommends that Essence help people hold and present them, rather than issue them.https://essence.digital/insights/speaking-open-standardshttps://essence.digital/insights/speaking-open-standardsTue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTA credential is worth more when any wallet built to open specifications can read it. Our August release built the groundwork for Essence to issue and verify credentials over OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP.https://essence.digital/insights/opening-a-vault-with-a-passkeyhttps://essence.digital/insights/opening-a-vault-with-a-passkeyThu, 06 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTIn our August release we built a way for a passkey to sign you in and open your Essence vault in one step, with no password. We hold only a locked copy of the vault key, and we cannot open it.https://essence.digital/insights/separate-countries-one-networkhttps://essence.digital/insights/separate-countries-one-networkTue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMTIn Essence's architecture, personal data belongs on country instances, not in a central store. In July we built the means for those instances to trust each other on terms that are recorded, checked and withdrawable.https://essence.digital/insights/fields-not-fileshttps://essence.digital/insights/fields-not-filesTue, 14 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMTPeople are often asked for a whole document when an organisation needs two or three facts from it. Essence makes the named field, not the file, the unit of every share and every consent.