An Identity Layer for the Web Would Identify Us Everywhere

CoinDesk has been putting out some really good stuff with their Year in Review, this is definitely something to think about as the tech grows

An Identity Layer for the Web Would Identify Us Everywhere

 

“An identity layer ‘for the web’ was one thing when there was a separation between the online and offline worlds. Now, as we bring everything online through connected devices, smart cities, augmented humans, and (yes) blockchain too, the digital is “eating the real world” to put it in software terms.

If we bake identity into all things connected, we bake it into everything. We create a world where the default practice will be to identify in all contexts and all settings. In other words, adding identity to the web isn’t just adding it to the web anymore. With the digital subsuming our reality, it would become an identity layer for our lives.

In potentially solving important problems of identity for certain things, e.g. preventing fraud and abuse, we risk overidentifying ourselves and eliminating the possibility of ever remaining anonymous in any domain of our lives in the future. It’s the risks of a cashless society but even further-reaching.”

https://www.coindesk.com/an-identity-layer-for-the-web-would-identify-us-everywhere

Master Asked on December 21, 2019 in Blockchain.
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