Is it time to:
Rethink privacy? Privacy as social identity control.
Review identity? Digital twins with no agency.
Restore agency? No access or control for individuals.
Privacy, owned by others, risks entraping individuals. China has social scores, the West has credit scores, and there needs to be visibility into our community scores. Our digital twin should have an avatar — an identity object with an agency wend by the individuals it represents.
Agency over our digital twins should be our new privacy objective. Each digital twin should be a child of our digital avatar. We must preserve our authenticity and trust through a digital agency of our choosing and control.
Web3 won’t be this salvation. A new standard needs to be defined, created, and executed for the benefit of humanity. We need a new concept. A tool, platform, and independent compliance regime rolled into one. We, individuals, enforce agreements and execute privacy.
These are very complex but essential questions in our current digital age. Let’s examine each of them individually:
1. Rethinking Privacy: Privacy as Social Identity Control — Traditionally, privacy is understood as the right to be left alone or to withhold personal information. However…
