Kantara UMA Standard Achieves V1.0 Status, Signifying a Major Milestone for Privacy and Access Control

Kantara Initiative announces that the User-Managed Access (UMA) Version 1.0 specifications have achieved the status of Kantara Initiative Recommendations through an overwhelming show of support from the organization’s Members. To mark this milestone, Kantara will be holding a free live webcast on May 14 at 9am Pacific.

Developed through an open and transparent standards-based approach, the UMA web protocol enables both privacy-enhancing consumer-controlled scenarios for release of personal data and next-generation business scenarios for access management. The UMA Work Group has identified a growing variety of use cases, including patient-centric health data sharing, citizen-to-government attribute control, student-consented data sharing, corporate authorization-as-a-service, API security, Internet of Things access control, and more.

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