identity privacy 2009

Identity & VRMAdriana Lukas

VRM Hub & The Mine! Project@ Identity and Privacy

14 May 2009

Why identity?

self-determination

impact

What is identity?

Systemic view

governments

centralised systems

privacy

rights of individual

bureaucracy

philosophy

psychology

meaning of life

“who am I?”

Individual view

Off-line

System centric

third-party driven

centralised

read-only

static

We are what our papers

say we are

objects are directly linked to immediate superiors or to subordinates, no direct links to peers

Hierarchy

Online

We are what we say we are

geriatric1927 = 79 year old Peter

And how others see us

and relate to us

Social identity

Individual centric

self-driven

distributed

read-write

dynamic

Network

heterarchy: each element shares same horizontal position of power and authority, playing

theoretically equal role

“Consumers”create, produce &

distribute

People formerly known as audience

‘Self-driven’ identity

Identity = meta-identity

Two meanings of

personal data

date of birth

address

phone number

passport number

social security number

mother's maiden name

Personal data

created, collected and shared by a

person

activity streams

Social data

FRACTURED

IDEN

TITY

My data

Mine! feeds

Feeds = Relationships

Relationships on

Individuals’

Own

Terms

Individual as IdP

✓ digital detritus

✓ self-driven identity

➡ owned identity

➡ relationship & trust-based identity

➡ transitive identity

•web

•social web

•VRM & the Mine! project

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www.vrmhub.net

www.themineproject.org

adriana.lukas@gmail.com