Hey @Blindsite2k I gained the bulk of my understanding exactly here from David
RFC - Unified Structured Data - #8 by dirvine
And there is another link I’ll try to add later
I’ll try to sum up even more, hopefully without messing it up. So instead of having your ID on some very ‘general’ piece of data, data types allow for ‘specificity’ and therefore to the program’s understanding, more control. Crypto keys from your ID that are signed to a certain data type lets you basically watermark any piece of data easily and have more control over it. ie sign over/revoke data(I’m not sure specifically how revocation works but I’m almost positive this is part of it), multi-sig data, make public or private (I believe this falls under this as well) etcetera. So as you can see way more control and granularity, so much better than legacy web. Brilliant in fact!
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