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October 27, 2012
from
GetMindSmart Website
Fencing the Internet: Identity Management Launched in the UK
A gated community on the Internet is about to take shape.
It begins with identity and deals with mis/trust; sorting the wheat from the chaff. It facilitates auditing of all e-transactions, to fight cybercrime and ensure compliance.
This is the new smart world, where control of identity is key.
IdM experts in the US have just released a short draft of scenarios envisaged for online ID:
The UK
government has just
announced its intention to offer a digital sign-in to access government
services online.
The global identity ecosystem (below video) involves making all online identity protocols work together under the same set of rules.
Governance is achieved by bringing the Trust Frameworks for all the various ID systems into alignment with global standards.
Websites will be expected to display a trust mark to show that they can be trusted as a ‘relying party’, and can interact with consumers through their IdP.
As more websites and people sign up, the
trusted community expands, and the Identity Providers (and governance
bodies) become the Internet gatekeepers, especially since all online
payments will require authentication, and cash is on its way
out.
These points are irrelevant
since databases do not need to be centralized, just accessible - and
an ‘information
card’, for people without
a smart phone is likely, as it
adds
authentication to the password.
...with your credentials.
Sure, you get to spread them around a little, but they will be in far fewer places, and marked with your ID number.
These Identity Providers are all linked under one system (i.e. ‘federated’), and the same sets of rules, such as those devised by the TSCP, whose members include,
Identity management is the way the Internet of Things (IoT) is controlled; this involves gathering vast amounts of personal data.
As part of this, ID chips will be placed into most everyday objects, such as clothing, indicating our behaviors and preferences.
Each object will be
tracked against the identity of its owner, hence each person and each object
needs to have a unique ID, enabled by
trillions of unique ID address spaces created by
IPv6. Thus, each
entity has a signifier to denote its attributes, so it can be understood by
complex computers; this enables efficient processing of 'things', and their
relationships, in the information network.
Data sharing is the focus, as foreseen by dozens of Internet giants back in 2001; Sun Microsystems (below video), in opposition to the launch of ‘Passport’ by Microsoft, formed the Liberty Alliance, together with companies which included,
Morphing into the Kantara Initiative in 2009, the group has worked closely
with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
over the years, developing standards to ensure global interoperability.
...achieved with a
one-time password system, for filing tax returns, etc., as is now being
proposed as part of the “digital
by default” design.
A report by the NSTC Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management (2011) expects smart phones, and their “expanding suite of sensors” to,
The identity ecosystem gives you privacy from most but not all.
You will have little to no control over your identity, because the Identity Provider holds the purse strings, and simply ‘allows’ you to take out a token (an ‘attribute’) sometimes and show it to someone, but then you’ve got to put it back in the purse, because the purse does not belong to you.
Your IdP can show all the tokens in the purse to third parties, namely neuromarketers and law enforcement agencies (the data is also invaluable to researchers, insurance companies, and employers).
But the IdPs hold the
purse strings, and profit directly from the data they hold on you.
Day-to-day ID control will entail the persistent monitoring of our biometrics to counter identity spoofing, while smart phones will become too valuable to lose (below video):
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