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The electronic 'me' : Comments
By Kevin Cox, published 4/12/2007Instead of governments controlling our identity in their databases we should control electronic data about ourselves.
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At some point there has to be a link to the physical me, presumably by use of some biometric data. How can this be secured other than by my actual physical presence, and how can it be verified that this is indeed my physical presence unless there is some verified electronic version of my biometric data, and hence pinchable?
There are a lot of other things I would like to ask, for example, if there are more transactions in an identity-free context, does it imply that these are better. Surely many of the most meaningful transactions are between true identitites. We could all be impersonal monads, but would living in a completely virtual world be as much fun or so deeply satisfying?
Sorry if my questions reveal that I have not grasped the gist of your presentation, but I thought your article was stimulating enough to deserve at least one response.