{"id":1007,"date":"2008-08-18T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2008-08-18T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T15:27:04","slug":"the-laws-of-identity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"The Laws of Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Eric Norman, Craig Burton and others for helping\u00a0work towards a\u00a0&#8220;short version&#8221; of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/stories\/2005\/05\/13\/TheLawsOfIdentity.pdf\">Laws of Identity<\/a>. So here is a refinement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">People using computers should be in control of giving out information about themselves, just as they are in the physical world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The minimum information needed for the purpose at hand should be released, and only to those who need it. Details should be retained no longer than necesary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It should NOT be possible to automatically link up everything we do in all aspects of how we use the Internet. A single identifier that stitches everything up would have many unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We need choice in terms of who provides our identity information in different contexts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The system must be built so we can understand how it works, make rational decisions and protect ourselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Devices through which we employ identity should offer people the same kinds of identity controls &#8211; just as car makers offer similar controls so we can all drive safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of the laws &#8211; version 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,8,3,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}