Over the last couple of years, Dawid Jacobs has noticed an increasing number of people jumping onto the Identity Management bandwagon. But without any knowledge thereof, even zero knowledge regarding fingerprints, biometrics etc. Frustrated by seeing more and more people posting inaccurate and in many cases false information, Dawid asked to come on my daily tech podcast to set the record straight. Dawid Jacobs is a prominent Identity Management Specialist in South Africa. He received intensive training in the South African Police Service as a Fingerprint Expert and Crime Scene Forensic Investigator (CSI). During his career in the South African Police Service as a Fingerprint Expert, he identified, matched and verified Hundreds of thousands of fingerprints and crime scene fingerprints. On numerous occasions, Dawid was called on to testify in the highest courts of South Africa in his Expert capacity to authenticate the identity of individuals involved in various crimes. Dawid also compiled study material on Fingerprint Identification and the Investigation of Crime Scenes for Forensic educational institutes. He has also been invited to various conferences, published media, radio and television shows in South Africa to provide professional input on Identity Theft and how to Protect an Identity. Dawid has been part of the creation of the first Pro-Active Identity Protection and Verification system which allows for various methods of Authentication which include Automated and Physical (Forensic) Fingerprint Identification Systems, a Verified Trust Exchange solution and Blockchain Identity Attestation solution. All these solutions are based on the Critical importance of optimized accuracy in the enrolment phase of an Identity, utilizing Forensic Protocol procedures. The Identity Management Solutions Dawid has been involved in, was created for the Global market and focusses on making every individual economically inclusive as well as to reinstate trust between institutions and their customers. Diverse Authentication Library (Pty) Ltd (DAL) is comprised of “Identity Management Specialists” with over 100 years of collective experience in Automated Biometric Identification Systems (AFIS and ABIS), law enforcement solutions, expert fingerprint analysis and forensic expertise from around the world. DAL is a South African company focussing on providing niche services in the Identity Management arena. By combining Identity Management with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) principles with our experience and expertise a “Disruptive Innovation” was created – Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS). A fully independent solution to “Know Your Customer” (KYC) that not only proves who the person is or where that person can be reached, but also returns trust between Institution and client. They link the Single Existing Real-World Human Being to the Cyber-World Single “Digital Twin” with forensic protocol and have therefore also optimized the Self-Sovereign Identity principle, to a REFERENCED Self-Sovereign Identity. Our form of regulatory compliance is just what the “FinTech" revolution has been crying out for. DAL is a total Independent Identity Management solution service provider, with no bias to any country, government or political party. The DAL MASTER Identity is a Permanent Persistent Identifier of the Single Existing Real-World Human Being. All Identities stored and protected by DAL remains the ownership of the registered owner thereof. DAL is only the custodian of Identities with the consent of the owner in the Independent Global Referenced Identity Library.