https://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=What_is_up_with_Online_Identity%3F&feed=atom&action=historyWhat is up with Online Identity? - Revision history2024-03-29T13:39:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1https://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=What_is_up_with_Online_Identity%3F&diff=457&oldid=prevVivian: 1 revision imported2015-05-05T18:13:25Z<p>1 revision imported</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div> - single sign-on options becoming very common (facebook, twitter, google, linkedin), and are even used by ideological opponents because of the benefits of social graphs<br />
- "being able to walk down a city street anonymously is on the verge of disappearing" --even offline identity will soon be tracked<br />
- Google, Facebook, other social networks (not Twitter) strongly enforce use of "real names" in the US, but care less for users outside of US (no universal concept of a real name, also less monetary motives for enforcing outside of US)<br />
- OpenID -- failed attempt at single sign-on with more privacy options/permissions than facebook connect etc (doesn't allow for social graphs)<br />
- do people even want to control these permissions? doesn't seem like this.... (tradeoffs for privacy v. convenience-- convenience wins every time)<br />
- nonprofits fighting this (pretty much all on defensive rather than offensive) EFF (legal side) & Mozilla (software side), EPIC<br />
- Ghostery = great firefox add-on that blocks all third party resources when loading pages<br />
- nonprofits can use same tactics ad companies use against their corporate opponents (playing dirty but it works!)<br />
- no real way to erase your online identity (even if you delete your facebook account, your info is just marked as deleted, not actually deleted)<br />
- history of humanity up to 2003 stored same amount of data that we store every 48 hours<br />
- content industries spend way more on lobbying than high tech industries, thus the current Protect ID act and SOPA (potential to "kill" the internet) -- interestingly Protect ID supported by more democrats than republicans, and most big tech corporations (google, ebay, twitter, facebook, etc) have signed letter against this</div>Vivian