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Digital Identities

Promise, Reality, Threat, and Hope

Augustin Bralley

What are

Digital
Identities?

Individually:

Comments, shares, likes, photos, essays, opinions, art...

lolcatz
Collectively:

Repository of Human Desires

The Promise We

could

own our

digital identities.
The web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles…
-Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web

Profit

[promise]

Targeted
Advertising
weightlossAd
Data
Analysis
Nielsen Ratings

Profit

[promise]

Control

[promise]

Privacy
Service

Control

[promise]

Insight

[promise]

Who are we?
What do we do?

Insight

[promise]

The Reality We

don't

own our

digital identities.
Then:

Arms Race

Now:

Data Race

Profit

[reality]

$5.54 billion
in 2011
We are food.
$70 billion
by 2021
Dire Straits

Profit

[reality]

Control

[reality]

Man in
the Middle
Mailbox
Data Tied
to Service
Google+

Control

[reality]

Insight

[reality]

Self-serving
Research
Double Face Palm
Inaccessible
Raw Data
Walled Data

Insight

[reality]

The Threat We

never

own our

digital identities.
The web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles…
-Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web

The World Wide Wall

Profit

[threat]

Monopoly
monoply man
Manipulation
Internet Brain suck

Profit

[threat]

Control

[threat]

One Privacy
Fits All
Privacy being erased
The Social
Has You
Matrix Pills

Control

[threat]

Insight

[threat]

Big Brother
I'm watching you
Trapped Data
data

Insight

[threat]

The Hope We

will

own our

digital identities.

Underground Bunker

Treehouse

Profit

[hope]

Distributed
Opportunity
Individual
Incentive

Profit

[hope]

Control

[hope]

Privacy
Evolution
evolution of femail underwear
Service
Competition
Corn variety

Control

[hope]

Insight

[hope]

Global
Research
Globe
Open, Raw
Linked Data

Insight

[hope]

Profit

[promise]

Profit

[reality]

Profit

[threat]

Profit

[hope]

Control

[promise]

Control

[reality]

Control

[threat]

Control

[hope]

Insight

[promise]

Insight

[reality]

Insight

[threat]

Insight

[hope]

End the

Data Race

Build the

Treehouse

Take back

Ownership

of our

digital identities.
Join us

DataCosmos

http://www.datacosmos.com