{"id":181,"date":"2005-10-05T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/phil-windley-puts-his-finger-on-why-defining-digital-identity-is-hard"},"modified":"2005-10-05T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T23:03:18","slug":"phil-windley-puts-his-finger-on-why-defining-digital-identity-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/phil-windley-puts-his-finger-on-why-defining-digital-identity-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Windley puts his finger on why defining &#8220;Digital Identity&#8221; is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windley.com\/archives\/2005\/10\/on_the_word_ide.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">His post<\/a> resonates very well with my thinking: an identity, even a digital one, is a lot more than &quot;a set of claims made by one digital entity about itself or another digital identity&quot; (from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_identity\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, which probably got it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cis-berkman.editme.com\/Lexicon\" target=\"_blank\">Identity Gang Wiki<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>He proposes this mental experiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One way of sussing this out is to ask: do identity twins have different identities? We would say yes, even when we can&#8217;t tell them apart. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &quot;even if we can&#8217;t tell them apart&quot; is the key phrase here. There is (digital) identity even without claims, and there certainly are different (digital) identities with the same claims!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His post resonates very well with my thinking: an identity, even a digital one, is a lot more than &quot;a set of claims made by one digital entity about itself or another digital identity&quot; (from Wikipedia, which probably got it from the Identity Gang Wiki). He proposes this mental experiment: One way of sussing this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}