Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves
Indpendent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves
I met with Mr. Sameer Kochhar early on in my trip to India as a New America India-US Public Interest Technology Fellow. I learned about his perspective on Aadhaar and also more about this vision about the underlying issues and how they can be addressed. He invite me to speak at his conference on Feb 25th about Inclusion at the Constitution Club of India
This advertisement just appeared in the newspaper about it.
Two weeks ago the K(no)w Identity announced that Edward Snowden is going to be the keynote speaker.
It will be interesting to hear what his take is on the state of the industry. I wonder if he actually doing to do research to understand the current dynamics.
Looking out broadly into the industry landscape. I see a lot of corporations and a lot of state actors lining up to “give people identities” when they already have them. Everyone has an identity (in fact more then one if they operate in many contexts). The companies who issue identity cards, or in the passport business, or voter registration systems writing really shiny reports with the World Bank and other agencies like that.
What people often don’t have is a formal link to formal government and corporate systems and haven’t been assigned identifiers ye. Then these identifiers are what can be used by other corporate and government systems to point at them some more when they interact with them. This isn’t a bad thing but it isn’t good thing either. It isn’t good when people are not empowered with their own identities and at the effect of these systems. When they are designed to inherently track and surveil and connect together dots about people without their awareness or consent.
I am enthusiastic about the current work around distributed identities and self-sovereign identities but these too have big challenges. Usability, comprehensibility, acceptance by relying parties (like you can use it somewhere)…. not like we have any of these things for digital versions of state issued identifiers either but at least you can walk into bank and hand a physical ID to a banker and get a bank account.
It will be the 2nd conference I have spoken at where he is the keynote speaker. The first one as HOPEX in 2014. Where he did a conversation with Daniel Elseberg.
I am excited about my first public speaking engagement for 2017.
The goal of this event is to help our students, faculty and community members understand better the practical issues and ethical dilemmas that the ubiquity of digital technology creates for digital and personal privacy.
David Brin, scientist, inventor, and New York Times bestselling author
Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney and the Adams Chair for Internet Rights at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
I’m on the response panel with:
Nate Cardozo, Senior Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’
Joseph DeLuca, Managing Practice Director of IT Optimizers
Eric Goldman Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, at Santa Clara University School of Law
Mridula Mascarenhas Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Communication at California State University, Monterey Bay
I was invited to give a talk at Privacy Identity and Innovation about the Digital Death and the conference that has happened a few times Digital Death Day.
I chose to lay out a matrix of questions that have arisen from the work. Enjoy the talk.
Digital Death a Matrix of Questions and Considerations from Privacy Identity Innovation on Vimeo.
After TEDxBrussels in 2011 I was invited to present at TEDx Constitution Drive. Enjoy!