{"id":702,"date":"2003-07-21T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/07\/21\/is_identity_about_ownership_or_assertion.html"},"modified":"2003-07-21T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2003-07-21T14:36:24","slug":"is_identity_about_ownership_or_assertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/07\/21\/is_identity_about_ownership_or_assertion.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Identity About Ownership or Assertion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalidworld.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=172&#038;mode=chrono&#038;order=0\">Is Identity About Ownership or Assertion?<\/a> is an article by Eric Norlin as part of the DigitalIDWorld conference. Summary: &#8220;The Digital Identity ecosystem is a large one. One of the corners of that ecosystem is the &#8220;social software&#8221; movement. Many of the individuals and companies involved in social software talk about identity in terms of ownership. In this article, Eric examines whether the power of identity lies in ownership or assertion&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My problem with this article is that Eric doesn&#8217;t ground what he&#8217;s referring to when he talks about idenitity.  From my definition of &#8220;idenity&#8221; there&#8217;s no question about who owns identity.  Identity can only be owned by the individual, because it is far more than simply the validity that someone exists.  The problem is that most people think of identity as what facets people present, what data people produce, and what bits can provide authentication.  The thing is that identity can&#8217;t be copied and stored, but the pointers to and output of one&#8217;s identity can be.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when it comes to the power of assertion regarding one&#8217;s identity, everyone must read Judith Donath&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smg.media.mit.edu\/people\/Judith\/Identity\/IdentityDeception.html\">&#8220;Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Identity About Ownership or Assertion? is an article by Eric Norlin as part of the DigitalIDWorld conference. Summary: &#8220;The Digital Identity ecosystem is a large one. One of the corners of that ecosystem is the &#8220;social software&#8221; movement. Many of the individuals and companies involved in social software talk about identity in terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yasns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}