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Digital identity, virtual personality: concepts and definitions

Dec 30, 2007

Every now and then, inevitably, the debate sparks again in the digital identity community as to what is “identity,” what is “digital identity,” and whether we can have several identities or only one, etc. In this last year week occurrence of the discussion, I’ve come to understand – tentatively – a number of confusions that are being made. I felt that different dimensions of a conceptual set (if n

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Government, real and digital identity

Jun 23, 2007

A couple weeks ago, I posted the following question on the Internet Identity Workshop email list (a group maintained by the Identity Gang), What is human subject digital identity without any government-issued identity credential, or government certified identity attribute?   I got a first answer that expresses the reflex of skepticism and suspicion toward government authority, probably

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The natural body is no longer a container for individual identity

Mar 21, 2010

The modern origins of the notion of the rights of individuals have often been linked to the liberal humanist philosophy about the human subject, which historically culminated with the Enlightenment. The right of privacy is one of those rights of the individual. Although it is not directly spelled out in the American constitution as an end in itself, several European constitutions and/or privacy le