← The Present & Future of Digital Identity: Promises, Risks, and Human Freedom

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What are the implications for humanity if digital identity becomes ubiquitous over the next 10-25 years?

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Digital identity systems will become a normal part of everyday life within the next 25 years.

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Author @Real Birch Ambassador

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Digital identity systems should be designed to protect privacy by default rather than requiring users to opt in.

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Author @Real Birch Ambassador

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people will spend a lot of time getting creative about getting around the implications of digital identity

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Author @LeanCanyon Ambassador

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Strong cybersecurity will become increasingly important as more aspects of identity become digital.

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Author @Vast Summit

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There will be many digital identities, resulting in clunky, fragmented user experiences.

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Author @PlainComet

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85% agreement ✓

Digital identity systems will become a normal part of everyday life within the next 25 years.

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

Digital identity systems should be designed to protect privacy by default rather than requiring users to opt in.

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agree

5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

people will spend a lot of time getting creative about getting around the implications of digital identity

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

Strong cybersecurity will become increasingly important as more aspects of identity become digital.

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

There will be many digital identities, resulting in clunky, fragmented user experiences.

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes

there will be socio-economic discrimination due to non-equal implementation of digital ids

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1 agree (20%) 0 disagree (0%) 4 needs work (80%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @Steady Coral — will there be a way to avoid discrimination & strive for more equal implementation?

digital ids will still be abused, like sybils, causing a cascade of hard-to-verify operations at the edges: in organizations

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2 agree (40%) 0 disagree (0%) 3 needs work (60%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

3 suggestions on what needs work
  • @Vast Summit — it's not clear to me what cascades might mean 'at the edges'
  • @Real Birch — not sure if i understand
  • @Steady Coral — agree there will still be abuse, trying to envision the edges/orgs cascade

The widespread adoption of digital identity will be one of the most transformative developments in human civilization during the 21st century.

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0 agree (0%) 2 disagree (40%) 3 needs work (60%) 5 votes

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2 suggestions on what needs work
  • @LeanCanyon — In what ways, specifically?
  • @Vast Summit — adoption with/to what?

People will be more honest.

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1 agree (20%) 1 disagree (20%) 3 needs work (60%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @Vast Summit — as aspiration, more so perhaps than by application

If digital identity becomes essential for daily life, people who choose not to participate will face increasing exclusion from society.

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3 agree (60%) 0 disagree (0%) 2 needs work (40%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

2 suggestions on what needs work
  • @Real Birch — it could be by choice also
  • @Steady Coral — what if they're choosing the exclusion? should their ability to choose be removed?

A globally interoperable digital identity framework would create more opportunities than risks for humanity.

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0 agree (0%) 1 disagree (20%) 4 needs work (80%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

Widespread digital identity will ultimately reduce individual privacy more than it improves security.

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1 agree (20%) 3 disagree (60%) 1 needs work (20%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

Digital identity systems will make government and corporate surveillance significantly easier over the next 25 years.

40%

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2 agree (40%) 1 disagree (20%) 2 needs work (40%) 5 votes

Did not reach 85%

1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @Real Birch — how are they going to do it?

Tour stats

Participants
5
Ticket holders
0
Free participants
5
Survey responses
20
Claims submitted
13
Claims voted on
13
Claims that reached 85%
5
Total votes cast
65

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