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Steve Wilson

@Steve_Lockstep

5 Feb

A rant about #trust following the terrific discussions at #IDPolicyForum yesterday and today.
#digitalidentity
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1/9 "Trust" of course is talked of everywhere. In #IDPolicyForum, a speaker bounced around from cryptographic trust, hardware roots of trust, and an anecdote about trusting the conference organiser because they were introduced by a mutual friend.

2/9 The trouble with this discourse and widespread use of the label is that it over-states what cryptographic "trust" is all about. It inflates lay peoples’ expectations of what #digitalidentity technology delivers.

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Steve Wilson

@Steve_Lockstep

5 Feb

@RossNodurft

'What should Biden do in #DigitalIdentity?' panel, @RossNodurft carefully draws a distinction between [the prospect of a] "National ID" versus a "national approach to digital identity". Hear hear!! #IDPolicyForum

In Australia, any mention of national approaches to digital identity as national infrastructure sadly gets bogged down in the spectre of a dreaded National ID. #IDPolicyForum

MyPOV: One way to position a national *approach* without scaring people with a national ID is to remember how retail banking is standardised. All bank cards work in an identical fashion but each is different. There is no single bank account. #IDPolicyForum

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Steve Wilson

@Steve_Lockstep

29 Mar 20

@rohitprabhakar

@rohitprabhakar @rwang0 @fxrseen @drsubirsaha @neeraj @vfiorese_ @roxanasoi @hessiejones @AlaricAloor @sarbjeetjohal @MiaD @jrhunt @defcon_5 Thanks Ray for the recommendation. I'm not sure where to begin except to say I don't have special insights into public trust. I tend to agree there seem to be stereotypical differences between countries in the public's trust in government versus trust in business. -/2

@rohitprabhakar

@rohitprabhakar @rwang0 @fxrseen @drsubirsaha @neeraj @vfiorese_ @roxanasoi @hessiejones @AlaricAloor @sarbjeetjohal @MiaD @jrhunt @defcon_5 2/n: So the cliche goes that Americans distrust government but have faith in the invisible hand of the markets, and so they "trust" businesses more (shudder quotes are deliberate when we're talking in such broad generalizations). -/3

@rohitprabhakar

@rohitprabhakar @rwang0 @fxrseen @drsubirsaha @neeraj @vfiorese_ @roxanasoi @hessiejones @AlaricAloor @sarbjeetjohal @MiaD @jrhunt @defcon_5 3/n: Conversely continental Europeans stereotypically tend to trust governments more than business (and so when Iceland wanted to DNA-test the entire population for research purposes, compliance was pretty high; citizens trusted in the outcomes, and trusted in due care). -/4

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Steve Wilson

@Steve_Lockstep

16 Jul 19

@Jo_Plays

@Jo_Plays @bhaines0 @IdentityHutch @WomeninID @dgwbirch @windley @IdentityWoman @Libra_ What makes digital identity (call it "ID" here) so hard?

1. There's a always been this strong drive to make ID reusable, to reduce on-boarding friction, reduce accounts & passwords, save cost, even make money. -/2

@Jo_Plays

@Jo_Plays @bhaines0 @IdentityHutch @WomeninID @dgwbirch @windley @IdentityWoman @Libra_ 2. Most ID initiatives (especially Federated Identity) are based on something of a false intuition. We look in our purses and see dozens of identities that all seem the same. -/3

[I'm dropping all @'s now to avoid annoying people]

3. I have dozens of cards and accounts all labeled "Steve Wilson" and it seems redundant. Can't I boil them down to one? No, they're really not the same identity. Each is a different relationship. -/4

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