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Re: "The ID Divide"
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:54:33 -0700
________________________________________ From: Bob Frankston [bob37-2 () bobf frankston com] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:50 PM To: David Farber; 'ip' Cc: 'Dan Lynch' Subject: RE: [IP] Re: "The ID Divide" The problem is the word “Identity. For a hospital it is your body. But for social networking sites you don’t want to give out your one true identity (AKA name/password) – you need to provide proxy authorization or agency. But the rush to monetize can’t wait for such a sophisticated idea. It’s the same as confusing the DNS with trademark (or telecom with railroads). But even in the hospitals we’re still coming to terms of concepts of agency and informed consent. In thinking about Spectrum’s Singularity site there’s a disconnect between the complexity of ambiguous social issues and the naiveté in mapping it into technology as if there were just one grand context as per the other meaning of ID – Intelligent Design. It’s going to take a generation to sort out the social ambiguities and even longer if we insist on the kind of hill climbing algorithms inherent in focusing on short term unenlightened ROI. This is not about greedy corporations as much as the degree to which we’ve removed ambiguity. The cruel irony is that we tend to imbue “science” with the aura of certainty when it’s just the opposite – science is very conditional. But as we apply math to finance we tend to accept arbitrary measures which then fail when the context changes – as they must. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:53 To: ip Subject: [IP] Re: "The ID Divide" ________________________________________ From: Dan Lynch [dan () lynch com] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:44 AM To: David Farber; Mary Shaw Subject: Re: [IP] Re: "The ID Divide" I am on the board of a large health clinic for people of all categories and what we realize is that the only ID that will work is one the patient brings in with every visit: their biometric identity, the iris in their eyes. A tiny fraction of individuals will not have that due to unfortunate circumstances and those can be handled "offline". Dan On 6/9/08 4:35 AM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:
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From: Mary Shaw [mary.shaw () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:40 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: "The ID Divide"
Dave,
This discussion is ignoring an important population, people who are neither
illegal nor privacy advocates.
One of my colleagues formerly worked with a medical clinic serving indigent
clients. He has told me that one of their problems was tracking clients --
that is, matching a client in the clinic today with his or her history at that
or other clinics.
You might expect that an ID card would solve, or at least help with, this
problem. But he reports that the clients didn't retain and bring back ID
cards. If I understand correctly, many clients didn't see the ID card as an
item of any significance; if it had any value they'd have no hesitation to
trade it away.
So a discussion of universal ID needs to consider how to persuade people that
ID matters and how they can maintain physical security of the ID token..
That problem is even more intractable than the technology problems, and I
think it's another reason why universal ID won't succeed.
Mary Shaw
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