identity
Let an agent handle identity respectfully across personal, social and digital senses, using people own self-descriptions and protecting identity data.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle identity respectfully across personal, social and digital senses, using people own self-descriptions and protecting identity data.
The qualities, beliefs, affiliations and characteristics that make a person or group who they are, including personal, social, cultural, gender and occupational identity; also, in technology, the attributes that identify a person or account, as in digital identity.
What it is for: Self-understanding, belonging, recognition and, in digital systems, authentication.
It can be use terms people choose for themselves; understand social and cultural identity; protect digital identity data; report identity theft.
Distinguishing features
Who someone is, to themselves and others
Multiple and changing
Social and legal dimensions
Digital identity needs protection
What it looks like
Not physical; expressed in self-descriptions, affiliations and documents.
How it is recognised
Personal and group identities
Identity documents and digital credentials
Identity in mathematics is another sense
Related models
is a kind of - category
includes - kinds
is protected by - law
is verified by - evidence
In practice
Families and kinds
personal identity
social and cultural identity
gender and occupational identity
legal identity
digital identity
Standards and regulation
EU eIDAS Regulation and European Digital Identity Wallet
GDPR
UN SDG 16.9 legal identity for all
Failure modes and hazards
Imposing identities on people
Identity theft
Exposing sensitive identity data
Also called
+103
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.identity-attribute
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Sense Which identity.
Senses differ.
Kind
Personal, social, digital.
Kind
Identity sense.
- Which sense of identity is meant? definition
- Which specific entry fits? action
Self-description
Chosen terms.
Self
Self-description.
- How does the person or group describe themselves? provenance
- Is that description respected? boundary
Social Belonging.
Identity is social too.
Groups
Affiliations.
Groups
Group identity.
- Which groups does the identity relate to? definition
- Is it self-identified? boundary
Discrimination
Protection.
Discrimination
Protection.
- Is identity-based discrimination involved? boundary
- Where can it be reported? action
Digital Credentials.
Digital identity needs security.
Credentials
Wallets and accounts.
Credentials
Digital identity.
- Which digital identity scheme is used? definition
- How is it secured? boundary
Theft
Identity fraud.
Theft
Identity theft.
- What should someone do after identity theft? action
- Who should be notified? action
Legal Documents.
Legal identity matters.
Documents
ID and records.
Documents
Legal identity.
- Which documents establish legal identity here? provenance
- How can someone without documents get help? action
Senses
Mathematics.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is a mathematical identity or identity element meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should identity senses be separate entries?
- How should digital identity be linked?
- How should the mathematical sense be split off?