Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Information and the state - digital identity Posted here Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 2:52:14 PM     Here is a report on digital  identity and government. Important to understand the issues because the good will of the "democratic intent" blends easily into an infrastructure between 'citizen and the state" that takes away freedom, not directly, but through taking away the capacity of a citizen to be a person unknown to the authorities. The question is, can a democracy exist in a total field of efficient information? Is part of freedom the caacity to chose to be unseen, or even to change identity? Certainly early thinkers on freedom assumed that the goal was to keep government to a small part of the total social space, not to make them isomorphic. (mapable onto each other). ********