One of the things that I find really interesting about #privacy and #identity is that privacy is often at odds with authorization and #accountability .
It seems to me that a world of perfect privacy, meaning no identity information is even provided, let alone stored or used, even if limited to just online spaces, is fundamentally at odds with providing accountability to people.
Stuff like asymmetric cryptography can provide non-repudiation through public key-private key stuff, but that in and of itself does not provide accountability, requiring the full #PKI ecosystem to function properly, and even then accountability is not guaranteed if no identity information is used.
And that is not even accounting for privileged access and #trust
It seems incredibly hard to balance as much privacy as possible to everyday people without compromising the whole entire chain of trust and authorization that the internet and basic services needs to function
And that provides the necessary excuses that identity capitalism and authoritarian regimes would want to keep our data for nefarious uses. That has been the purpose of the internet long before it was the internet, and continue to do so after the internet as we know it has died off, probably and sadly.
If anyone knows a good resource that talks about this balance of privacy vs trust and similar, I would love to read more about it.
