Voisin et al. report the GA4GH Passport, a new international standard to encode machine-readable data access permissions for individual users. Passports are used as part of a federated data regulatory process to authenticate and authorize data users in managing access to human biomedical datasets and have been successfully implemented in international research programs and data infrastructures.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2021.100030

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