Home Emerging Tech News New Keyring wallet could stop companies from profiting off your personal identity data Italianestro / Shutterstock Every time you create a new online account, you’re handing over personal data to a server you’ll never control. Since an average person can have hundreds of online accounts on different services, that adds up to a lot of data sitting in corporate databases. Researchers at Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab say that this system puts your privacy at risk and makes you more vulnerable to identity theft. Their solution to this problem is Keyring, an open-source identity wallet that stores your biometric data on your phone instead. How does Keyring actually work? ASML / Harvard Think of it as a privacy-first digital ID. Rather than exposing your full details to every service you use, Keyring lets you share only what’s strictly necessary. Services like Tinder have already started exploring biometric identity checks to check if the users are real humans.…