McGregor: Private identity data belongs on SIM hardware, not cloud systems
Travis McGregor · He Presented from the Hip on Stage and Invented a World First in 90 Days · Jun 9, 2026 · at 13:08
Telecommunications innovator Travis McGregor discusses decentralized data privacy architectures on We Live to Build with host Sean Weisbrot.
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“SIM and eSIM technology, it's separate from everything else. It's a secure execution environment. So if your ID, your representation of who you are, the private information, I argue should be there, not on all these cloud systems that can be taken and manipulated.”
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