The Paradox of Identity (why OpenID is Evil) Brad Templeton Electronic Frontier Foundation (& Foresight Institute)
Why does it matter? Bad Science
History of humanity is a long chorus of police states punctuated by a few recent stacatto notes of freedom.
We must take care not to build the infrastructure of a police state
We must consider the balance, and think when we change it And we’re really shifting the balance
Facebook reversed signup dynamic
Erasure of 4th amendment
Architecture will set defaults
Nobody cares about privacy until after invaded
Ease of Use is a Bug Mag stripe on your driver’s licence Long web form is impediment
End-User control prevents negotiation Negotiated vs. non-negotiated Negotiation only happens with power What’s the history of success? P3P? Agents? Reputations? Bizarrely, Passport could have done better! Proxies
Two choices: Let the TFH have their way, there are few of them, it costs us little Too many TFH: Agree with what we wan't or go away
Data exported is data lost
Data Portability or BEPSI
Time travelling robots from the future
China, Saudi Arabia, Future China
Falun Gong on Facebook