identity crisis: global challenges of identity protection in a networked world alison knight
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity
Protection in a Networked World
Alison Knight
![Page 2: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
2
• We intentionally reveal, and unintentionally leak, our identity information in many ways
• From ‘digital fingerprints’ to ‘online personae’:
– possibility to record and store everything (technically and economically)
– possibility to analyse identity data– possibility to do massive personalisation
• Identity value and the ‘control’ conundrum
IDENTITY CHALLENGES
![Page 4: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
4
WHO AM I?
(biographical) (personae)
Real World Digital World
(biometrics) (cybermetrics)
Who do I think I am?
What is my personality?
Who do others say I am?
How do I act?
How am I represented?
![Page 5: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
5
Super Identity?
(E)IDENTITY TO (E-)IDENTIFICATION
![Page 6: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
6
HOW CAN I BE SURE YOU ARE YOU?
• Authentication, trust and reputation
• Different approaches to identification and verification
– Something you are– Something you have– Something you know
• Bridging links with confidence between the real world and the cyber world
![Page 7: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
7
Super ID?
![Page 8: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
THE ‘SUPER IDENTITY’ PROJECT
• How can we accurately identify people online and detect online identity misuse?
8
![Page 9: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
CRIMINALS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
9
• Identity theft and identity crime on the rise globally
• The extent of the online problem
• Risks and vulnerabilities
• The challenges of digital identity management
Deceive
![Page 10: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
COMMERCE AND THE INDIVIDUAL
10
• Identity as online currency
• Targeted advertising
• Data aggregation
• Function creep
• Identity ‘de-contextualised’
• ‘Big Data’
![Page 11: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
11
PROFILING: AUTOMATED LINKS AND PREDICTIONS
![Page 12: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
STATES AND THE INDIVIDUAL
12
• Identity policies
• Key policy activity areas
• eID cards
• Biometric technologies
• Covert surveillance
• Policy decision-making: balancing tensions between public and private interests
![Page 13: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
SOCIAL AND LEGAL• Social acceptability - researching teenagers’
attitudes around personal data and online self portrayal
• How can I protect my identity legally? Do existing models go far enough?
13
![Page 14: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
PROTECTING IDENTITY – EXISTING LEGAL MODELS
14
A right to privacy
• A ‘redress’ model
• A relative right
• Obscures ‘mis’-identity concerns
Data protection
• A ‘control’ model
• Fair processing principles
• ‘Informed consent’ concerns
![Page 15: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
15
LEGAL RIGHTS IN OUR (DIGITAL) IDENTITY?
Copyright?
Database rights? A human right to identity?
Confidential information?
Contract?
Personality rights?
IS THIS ENOUGH TO PROTECT ‘ME’?
A right to be forgotten?
A right to be made anonymous?
Property ownership?
A UN Charter of digital identity?
![Page 16: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
16
1. Techno-regulation
2. Risk and context aware
3. Data stewardship
4. Greater accountability
5. Greater transparency
6. More empowered individuals
7. Citizen-centric identity policies
8. Internationalism
LEGAL IDENTITY PRINCIPLES
![Page 17: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
17
CONCLUSIONThe identity landscape is changing:• More opportunities, more risks
Converging drivers for identity policies worldwide:• How best to police identity misuse and ensure fair
outcomes?
Many legal models have not kept pace:• We need to take a holistic perspective on modern
identity – identity as “doing”, not just being
Code and market and norms and law:• We need inclusive dialogues
The future of identity: • Many challenges lie ahead…
INCREASINGLY NETWORKED IDENTITIES IN AN INCREASINGLY NETWORKED WORLD
![Page 18: Identity Crisis: Global Challenges of Identity Protection in a Networked World Alison Knight](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062719/56649ef25503460f94c03706/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
18
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Steve Saxby & Alison Knight “Identity Crisis: Global Challenges to Identity
Protection in a Networked Age” www.superidentity.org/
Thank you for listeningQuestions?