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[DIDW] No Digital ID is an island

I'll leave the session on RFID to AKMA to document, but I will make the observation that the success of so many of the ventures at this conference depends on getting the social factors right. As I have commented before, when if comes to RFIDs and their use in e-tags, it's not the local purpose of the application that matters so much as the opportunities for triangulation.

What will make legislators worry over e-tags is not so much what each individual corporation describes as its justification (after all, tagging your kids may well seem appropriate in a high-kidnap society), but rather the uses others make of the e-tag you have created (a paedophile tracking your kid with the anti-kidnap tag you implanted may not be what you intended). In broader terms, digital ID deployers need to look beyond their own intentions when devising their solutions as the opposition may not be to their intent but rather to the harm others use it for.

posted at 9:59 PM (UK) | |