Identity crisis: global challenges of identity protection in a networked world
Identity crisis: global challenges of identity protection in a networked world
Modern identity is valuable and complex. We manage multiple selves across numerous offline and online spaces. Yet, technology-mediated identity leads us into crisis. Enduring accessibility to greater and growing personal details, alongside increases in both computing power and data linkage techniques, fuel fears of identity exploitation. Will it be stolen? Who controls it? Are others aggregating or analysing our identities to infer new personal data without our knowledge or consent? This paper reflects upon some of these issues as part of the interdisciplinary Super Identity project investigating links between cyber and real-world identifiers. New policy and legal challenges present themselves around automated technologies and safeguarding individuals’ interests while striking an appropriate balance with public interests. The authors argue that to meet the crisis requires a reconceptualisation of identity protection to compensate for existing models. Only by embracing prospects for ‘technical-legal’ partnered solutions will we be equipped to face challenges ahead.
978-87-994854-3-7
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International Association of IT Lawyers
Saxby, Steve
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Knight, Alison
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November 2013
Saxby, Steve
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Knight, Alison
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Saxby, Steve and Knight, Alison
(2013)
Identity crisis: global challenges of identity protection in a networked world.
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Kierkegaard, Sylvia
(ed.)
Law & Practice: Critical Analysis and Legal Reasoning.
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Modern identity is valuable and complex. We manage multiple selves across numerous offline and online spaces. Yet, technology-mediated identity leads us into crisis. Enduring accessibility to greater and growing personal details, alongside increases in both computing power and data linkage techniques, fuel fears of identity exploitation. Will it be stolen? Who controls it? Are others aggregating or analysing our identities to infer new personal data without our knowledge or consent? This paper reflects upon some of these issues as part of the interdisciplinary Super Identity project investigating links between cyber and real-world identifiers. New policy and legal challenges present themselves around automated technologies and safeguarding individuals’ interests while striking an appropriate balance with public interests. The authors argue that to meet the crisis requires a reconceptualisation of identity protection to compensate for existing models. Only by embracing prospects for ‘technical-legal’ partnered solutions will we be equipped to face challenges ahead.
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Published date: November 2013
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