Give @julian#Github comment some good reactions to show the folks of the #W3C Federated Identity CG that there's more than #BigTech#identity providers to take into account..
I'm ever so slightly annoyed (= raging mad) that #Helsinki IT has managed to leave the personal details of every #school age kid, their parents, and every city employee on an unsecured network drive, allowed them to be stolen, and now is trying to wiggle out of the responsibility to inform every impacted person (= just about everyone) or offer anything but stupid generalities as protection for #identity#theft. #cybersecurity fail of the year. Perhaps several.
Avery Jackson did a non-medical #transition at the age of four. At the time, they felt more comfortable as a #girl. As they grew up and their understanding of #gender evolved, they decided #nonbinary#transgender suited them better.
And now that they are 15, their family is moving out of Missouri because they fear the recent draconian anti-trans #laws.
"No longer identifies as a girl" does not mean they identify as a #boy. They are still #trans. They knew from the age of 4 that being a boy was not right for them.
I don't think they changed their mind. I think they just found a better understanding of who they were.
These #bigots know nothing about trans #people yet think they are qualified to criticize them.
And even if the kid did end up identifying as cis (and for simplicity's sake, let's say that they had only transitioned socially) there would be no actual harm done. Self exploration is essential for understanding one's #identity..."
"New York state banned the use of facial recognition technology in schools Wednesday, following a report that concluded the risks to student privacy and civil rights outweigh potential security benefits."
Another DEF CON talk: "Attacking Decentralized Identity". It introduced and clarified DIDs and verifiable credentials in approachable language. Here's my distillation of that introduction.
This talk will give a brief introduction into two EU bills that should top of mind for the digital rights and hacker community. The negotiations for the digital #identity and digital euro proposals have the potential to for tectonic change in the digital age. This talk will provide basic info, explain a bit how the EU works and try to mobilise more people to join the debate.
Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism.
It is possible to be black and Dutch, or for a person of Moroccan descent to be unequivocally French. But is it possible to be non-white and to think of oneself as “European”?
Might eight decades of EU integration accidentally foment a form of ugly, pan-continental bigotry?
A new book decries the continent’s subtler form of chauvinism.
In the evolving digital landscape, "Identity on the Web" is crucial for online interaction, #privacy and #security.
At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Heather Flanagan, co-chair of the newly created W3C Federated Identity #WorkingGroup discussed challenges in establishing a common understanding of #identity and explored this topic's technological, social, and #ethical dimensions in relation to the W3C’s mission.
Saw a demo of the #openid interop #test suite this week at internet #identity workshop #iiw. Very impressive! We need that kind of thing for the #fediverse.
As part of the process I changed my surname from Salim to Lind, getting it closer to my ancestors' original 林 ( a lot of us Chinese-Indonesians were forced to change our surnames under the military dictatorship, see https://archive.is/339Nn ) so it feels like freedom in more ways than one.
Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Rom Harré, 1990
"The academic ‘we’ might seem at first glance to be just a version of the editorial ‘we’. Like the latter it is mutedly egocentric but it is not mainly used to imply teamwork. Rather, it is used to draw the listener into complicity, to participate as something more than an audience. "
"Trust, then, is a relation, but can be grounded in the faith of only one of its terminal members. Trust belongs to the same category of personal attributes as beliefs, though trust is more like implicit belief than like opinions which are overtly expressed. It is what is taken for granted in a relationship, whether between people or between people and things. It is usually called into question only when it is violated."
Thanks Evan, there's a bit to digest there, some of which I agree with, and some of which I don't, between what both you and the OtherEvan had to offer.
It's good to get this stuff right out in the open, especially as the Fediverse is currently undergoing yet another paradigmatic shifts, perhaps an evolutionary step, but certainly, a complete game changer from much of the perspective offered in the Evan <==> Evan Essays ;)
"The Seattle hospital said in a statement that it had 'successfully fought' the 'overreaching demands to obtain confidential patient information.' A judge in Austin dismissed the lawsuit Friday, saying the parties had settled their dispute."
"I didn't realize until years later, thinking back about that, was I was three years old. I lived with my birth mother, and then I didn't anymore.
And I was a three year old. I was talking to her. I forgot over [00:27:00] a while, over time what I was doing. And in the book I talk about it that way. I forgot what I was doing, but I kept doing it. And in, the way that I forgot my name, I had no idea what my name was and I had to find it."
Guest speaker: Scottish actor & playwright Matthew Zajac, who will be also performing his critically acclaimed play THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS – the first performance of this play in France