Privacy is often defined as “the right to be left alone” (OED). The key issue here is the ‘right’ - not the ‘alone’. Very few of us choose to be left entirely alone, we surround ourselves with people, phones, computers, tvs, radios etc. But we want to know we could be left alone in a given context: I’m happy to be called by family & friends at weekends, but have no interest in receiving calls from double glazing firms.
At Monday's Enterprise Privacy Group meeting, a debate arose around the value of identity management - and in particular the Identity Metasystem - in the grand scheme of human endeavour. Why do we fret about identity when there are lots of apparently bigger issues out there? But stacked up against climate change, curing cancer and ending world hunger, identity management is a lot more important than you might think.
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