Yes. Except, if you know *anything* about a subject, you have an identity. You probably don't need a legal identity, but once you start tracking and learning, you're using identity. Don't imagine that pseudonymity means no identity.
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Data Protection aka Information Privacy eg
#GDPR provides an elegant and generalized control framework here. If you know anything about a person then that knowledge is Personal Data and is regulated in most places. Don’t collect more than you need == don’t over-identify.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Agreed. My quibble is that attributes associated with a person *are* Identity. That is both the ISO definition and exactly how ad network companies delude themselves into thinking pseudonymous tracking is privacy preserving: "no identity". Au contraire, it's ALL identity.
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Yup. Identity is such a loaded term.
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It's not loaded, just misused. As innate as language, too many people rely on shortcuts, which they confuse with identity. Identifiers. Credentials. Attributes. DNA. You name it, people will misuse it. Doesn't mean there isn't a clear, concise, and useful definition of Identity.
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I respectfully submit that people have different ideas of what identity is, and that dictionary definitions are not the way out of the confusion. "Digital Identity" - as crisply defined as it is by technologists - continues to be misinterpreted. I'd like to drop the word.
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I submit that the functional definition of identity, "how we recognize, remember, and respond to specific people and things", is foundational, cross cultural, and unambiguous. Trying to avoid the most potent word in the industry just creates more confusion and bad systems.
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Ok, that's a reasonable definition, but it's your definition. Therein lies the problem. The fact that you felt the need to use your own phrase kinda proves that identity is far from settled.
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But it been proven to help our
#RebootingWebOfTrust community when we use it that way ourselves. Keeps us out of some rat holes.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
I like your definition. And I hadn’t seen that exact form of words before. So ... we’re still in a game of definitions at 20 paces. Is there another branch of security or IT where experts argue like this over definitions? Or where glosssaries are so many and varied?
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All of them? To make my point, consider merely "object" and "type".
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