This Friday 28th: Who are you? Future Salon

Just a quick reminder. This Friday the 28th of January Future Salon about Identity. Please don't forget to RSVP so we can calculate food and drinks by sending an email to mona dot bhardwaj at sap dot com or to me.

New study from the Better Business Bureau comes to a for me surprising result:

The study maintains that ID fraud is not worsening, that most identities are stolen by low-tech methods, and that much of the theft is committed by a friend, family member or someone else known by the victim.

That's good news, but Identity fraught is only a very small part of the whole picture and we have some great minds to shed some lights on it. Details in my last post.

The short of it:

Future Salon about Identity with presenters from Google, Liberty Alliance and ID Commons. Friday 28th of January 6-7pm networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP. From 7-9+pm presentations and panel discussion. SAP Labs North America, Building D, Room Southern Cross, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 [map]

Comments

[Alex]

Here's a thought I didn't have the opportunity to share last night. I'm going to say what I think many people are afraid to admit to themselves.

Sometimes the internet can be like that uncle or aunt who always tells the same embarassing story year after year at family gatherings. A key difference is that your relative's audience is your family, not the entire wired world - not a potential boss, girlfriend, landlord, or, karma forbid, bone marrow donor. The internet is very good at keeping a record of our past transgressions, whether we want to remember or not. Actually, in a perverse way, the internet is keeping us honest.

In other words, parallel to giving us the ability to control who we present ourselves as in a given context, all this identity management hokey pokey is an attempt to give ourselves back the locus of control over how *honest* we are with each other.

[Dimitar Vesselinov]

Niall Kennedy has recorded all three speeches as well as the question and answer period.

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/01/digital_identit.html