Open Badges are different from (flat) digital stickers in that they contain immediately verifiable information. When a badge is awarded, metadata about the badge, recipient and issuer are baked into the award. This makes Open Badges very hard to fake, forge or copy. For example, a badge may be shared with a hiring committee who could then immediately verify the badge issuer, recipient, date of award and other information about the award. This prevents an actual recipient from giving their badge to a friend who might feign that they earned the badge themselves. With Canvas Badges/Credentials, you can share a badge from your backpack and choose to include the recipient identifier (typically an email address), so that the badge consumer can not only verify the nature of the award but also to whom it was awarded. BadgeCheck.io can be used to verify badges and badge recipients. Badge verification is an all-or-nothing process. All data contained within the badge must be verified for it to be considered a valid Open Badge. This includes information about the issuer, badge award and recipient. If one of the data points can't be verified, then the badge is considered invalid even if some of the information is correct. Please note that some verification results may be of a technical nature. See: Sharing badges from Canvas Badges/Credentials.