The Economist | Making you you https://www.economist.com/node/21755427?frsc=dg%7Ce
An intriguing question, who defines our identity. Is it the certificate we may or may not have which was issued issued to our parents at Birth, assuming some entity has that role? Who is this entity with the right to guarantee you are you or I am Philip?
When we hear of the challenges some must deal with in order to vote, we quickly realize it is others who hold the ability to define our identity or for that matter alter or erase our identity.
This article explores the history of systems developed to create means of linking an individual to the assets, obligations and rights they possess. What is clear, it is another who defines and establishes societies means of establishing your identity.
As we move into the world of virtual identity there are those who are and have sought to assume what often was the role of the village elders, the church or most often the government.
Are we the people comfortable with these technocrats, in it for profit, becoming the ordinators of our identity? Clearly advertisers and those seeking to take advantage, happily collect data about us and will happily use this data to push us to buy what they want to sell or take advantage of us in ways we may not be able to recover from.
For those of you incline to think about the question of identity, I recommend reading what The Economist has to say.