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SUMMARY:What is Digital Identity all about?  - Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS
 . Computer Lab\, at the University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20260302T180000Z
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:We have many forms of identity\, whether socially constructed 
 (kinship\, personas\, relationships)\, or issued via organisations (employ
 ers\, banks\, clubs\, government). These identities can be partly stored a
 s a digital twin (e.g. by recording biometric information plus some identi
 fier/number\, and then possibly linked to other information credentials or
  entitlements - e.g. citizenship\, age\, health\, finance\, educational re
 cords and so on).\n\nThese digital ecosystems can be designed to allow us 
 to control (access to) such data\, or they can be part of state and commer
 cial surveillance. The trustworthiness of such ecosystems is highly questi
 onable. I'll walk through alternative designs and give examples of benefit
 s and disadvantages\, including threats (fake id\, denial of service etc).
 \n\nIn this talk\, I'll also outline challenges\, including future problem
 s like the mutability of allegedly unique and persistent biometrics like i
 ris or even DNA\, and speculate about the possibility of reflecting social
  structures properly in designs to create more fair and resilient systems 
 that might be more acceptable than many deployed or proposed today. 
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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