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