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["Markus Sabadello" <msabadello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool, I just read it.

What I liked most:
- The way it examines the philosophical backgrounds of real-world identity and how that relates to digital representations. 
- How it explains the difference between American and European approaches to personal data.
- The way it relates identity issues to fundamental human rights (right to "personhood"). Maybe it should also have included a reference to the "Tunis Commitment" and "Tunis Agenda" outcome documents of the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society - these also mention the importance of user-centricity, privacy protection and trust for a free, open information society.

- The Properties of Identity - that's simply cool to read.

Here's a question I have. The paper gives tons of legal, political and economic arguments for the new, user-centric technologies, but does it explain why a user would actually want them? The Yong Ai Tun story is very cool, but to me it's more frightening than encouraging (and if I understand it correctly, the point of that story is indeed to point out dangers rather than advantages). Anyway, after reading the whole paper, I know lots of theoretical reasons why user-centric identity is good for everyone, but somehow it doesn't really tell me how my "perceived" everyday-life-as-a-user will get better.


In total, a great read (although difficult at times). Oh and what's best about the paper is of course how every single line you read makes you think of Higgins, even though it doesn't mention it a single time :)

Markus

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Mary Ruddy <mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This week, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 
released a paper titled At a Crossroads: Personhood and Digital Identity in the
Information Society* by Berkman Fellow Mary Rundle and co-authors Bob
Blakley, Jeff Broberg, Anthony Nadalin, Dale Olds, Mary Ruddy, Marcelo
Thompson Mello Guimarães, and Paul Trevithick.

 

The paper argues that laws and software must be crafted to respect certain "Properties of
Identity" in identity management in order for the information society to be
free and open.  The importance of user control is a central theme of the paper which can be found at:
http://www.oecd.org/findDocument/0,3354,en_2649_33703_1_119684_1_1_1,00.html

 

 

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