Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Issues for 2012 #3: Who Gets to Define Your Online Identity?

Stephen Downes

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Clear and succinct explanation of the problem of identity management - if you didn't know that there is a problem with identity management, this is the article to read. "Taking advantage of this new reliance are the networks which have the most to gain from absorbing as much data as possible on users' activities... This leads to a kind of tangled conundrum that only our modern society could have bumbled into: The problem of safeguarding access is effectively being outsourced to the very centralized sources that are the crux of the existing problems with privacy and user security."

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