Digital Identity - war of words continues #mdfp

Last night I spoke at mashup’s event on Digital Identity: the value of digital you with

Nicky Hickman, Robin Wilton, Alan Moore and David Rennie

My views from the session are that Digital Identity is still at the early stages of debate and discussion even though there is an increasing number of experts who deeply understand the issues, the overriding focus is still an argument about what “words” mean – the image gives some of the words that went round.

Digital Identity is a complex issue crossing many boundaries and professional disciplines. We tend to have many persona, we are no longer owned by a Brand, we know many people with whom we have a different relationship with and know to different degrees and understanding, we don’t tend to reveal all to everyone, you cannot own your data, people are lazy and don’t do things even though they could, value depends on who the giver and receiver is. Identity is a negotiation and in reality we are the product that is traded. Two good quotes

“privacy is no longer the social norm”  Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

“It's not our data, it's our life...” Bruce Schneier

Here is the list of words that we crossed in the conversation on Digital Identity

Negotiation

Confidence

Trust

Value

Informed consent

Privacy

Control

Convenience

Tolerate

Informed

Conversation

Manipulated

Relationship

Forgiving

Pre-defined

Knowing

Owning

Persona

Hard/ soft identity

Implicit/ explicit data

Implied

Security

Digital footprint

Social benefit

Engaging users

Trade

Barter

Reveal

Honest

Representative

CRM/ VRM

Simplicity

Personal

Terms and conditions

It’s dead