{"id":353,"date":"2006-11-24T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T02:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/questions-about-user-centric-identity"},"modified":"2006-11-24T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T02:35:08","slug":"questions-about-user-centric-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/questions-about-user-centric-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about User-Centric Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Brands, eminent privacy and security researcher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idcorner.org\/?p=142\" target=\"_blank\">asks good questions<\/a> about user-centric identity. (I think they apply regardless of protocol. I have taken the liberty to replace some geeky terms with more plain ones, because I think it&#8217;s important that as many people as possible understand these questions)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Can the individual consent to or withhold the release of identity data to anybody, any site, any company etc.? (on a case-by-case basis, informed, non-coerced,&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Can the individual see the actual identity data that is flowing? (Or is it encrypted for the receiver, so the user needs to trust their software vendors?)<\/li>\n<li>Can the individual hide the identity of the receiver of the information from the software system \/ website \/ organization that stores the identity information? (for example, does Visa know it every time you show your credit card?)<\/li>\n<li>Can the individual hide which information they wish to convey to anybody from the software system \/ website \/ organization that stores the information?<\/li>\n<li>Can the individual locally store and manage long-lived identity credentials? (If not, then all the individual&#8217;s actions &#8211; and therefore accounts &#8211; can be traced, simply by tracking what happened when)<\/li>\n<li>Can the individual pick and choose which attributes of the identity credentials are disclosed to anybody?<\/li>\n<li>Can the individual avoid using the same identifiers (think: social security number)? (If not, others can easily link the individual&#8217;s actions all across the web)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stefan&#8217;s more technical list is more precise, and a bit broader; please consider his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idcorner.org\/?p=142\" target=\"_blank\">original post<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Brands, eminent privacy and security researcher, asks good questions about user-centric identity. (I think they apply regardless of protocol. I have taken the liberty to replace some geeky terms with more plain ones, because I think it&#8217;s important that as many people as possible understand these questions) Can the individual consent to or withhold&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":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}