Privacy Begins with Reliable Identity.
Because an improperly designed and
deployed universal identity
can be misused to erode privacy, another important fact is often
overlooked: a properly designed and deployed
universal
identity credential can be the individual's personal fortress of
privacy.
The public debate about privacy often cites the need for the
individual to determine exactly how various pieces of information
about herself or himself may be used, and by whom. For that
principle to work, however, the identity credential itself must be an
information gatekeeping tool.
Through the use of three key elements - zk technologies,
public key
infrastructure, and the use of legal methods that make information
about an individual his or her personal intellectual property
- we need not treat the security of the public and the privacy of the
individual as though they are antithetical. We can - and must - have
both.
WTSA supports the use of the Personal Information Ownership
Infrastructure, a component of the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure, to
put individuals truly in control of information about themselves.
