My Digital FootPrint

This is Carlo Ratti speaking on Architecture that senses and responds Whilst we love to think that we create our own digital footprint, the more sensors there are there more something else know about us......

Adam is the Editor-in-Chief at Mashable http://www.mashable.com/author/adam-ostrow A topic that keeps coming back and here is another post on it - what happens to your digital footprint when you die ?

This TED talk  by Julian Treasure  - 5 ways to listen better. He has several versions on the same topic and theme http://www.juliantreasure.com/Julian_Treasure/Home.html  The reason for putting it here on a blog about digital footprints is that listening is part of our digital footprint...and sensors are trying to do what Julian describes for us to help in that filter.

This is the last of three thought exercises I do before I start workshops on Digital Footprints.  The other two are here ( All Data and My data & My Data and My Identity ) In this case I ask the audience to draw models, as they are getting use to it now, on the relationship between My Data and My Rights.  This one always takes longer than the others and more often than not starts with one model and will move to a final one before presenting, but there will still be a general disagreement in the room. The Extension model : In this case there is thought that you have rights outside of your data and that you don't have rights to all your data. The Control model : Everything is mine and everything is in my control and I have and control the rights to everything..... The Right model : You only have certain rights over a small subset of your data The Real model : You may like to believe you have rights but you have none.

In a previous blog I detailed a basic question I ask when starting workshops on Digital Footprints to help the audience understand that they will not only disagree with my views but already disagree with each others.  To avoid recrimination at coffee breaks I now tend to say there is no right answer....... Following on from drawing venn diagrams about ALL data and MY Data, I then move to what they see as the relationship between My Data and My Identity.   I define the two for this exercise in very general terms so My Data is all data created and consumed by me and My Identity is what ever you feel Identity is.  There are fewer consensus models presented but usually the room is more evenly split across all four and it always changes as more models come out. The Related model : This shows an acceptance that there is a relationship between My Data and My Identity but tends to agree that whilst there is some cross over, Identity is sometimes given (government/ company) and

When I am asked to present about "Digital Footprints" I often start with a question.  The question serves only one purpose and has not answer but is only to highlight that everyone in the room probably has a slightly different view of what they think is "their data."  Once this is established it tends to remove the ideals that there is a right and wrong solution to dealing with data Starting at the top left and walking along the top, dropping down and ending up at the bottom right here are the 6 models.  The grey shaded area represents "all data" and the green is "my data".  I define for this example that all data is all data that exists. My data is data created or consumed by me. Model 1:  The Righteous model .  The vast majority of people will draw the Venn diagram like this - showing that My Data is a small subset of all data and everyone who draws this cannot believe there is any other model. "It is the only logical o

    On the one hand we know that the looser a relationship, the less references (of any type) there are that connect the people in that relationship.  [Accepted that celebrity and news are a special case] But we are limiting our thinking in the case to personal identity and how to identity you are who you say you are.   One the other side we have escalating costs for managing identity where the relationship is very loose .  However, if there is any truth in the fact that a stronger relationship should drive out risk, it should also drive out cost, as cost should only increase to try and reduce/ manage risk.   Therefore, does anyone have any benchmarks for how much is reasonable to spend on finding out you are who you say you are at different points on the curve?