Another item from the backburner that touches on something really important - distributed identification . It's the idea that your own online identity is independent of any particular product or service (needless to say, there's a lot of resistance to that idea from web companies who see identity as a money-making machine (it's probably part of Bluesky's business model, but I digress)). This paper (27 page PDF) reports on a literature analysis conducted "to produce four models: the rights-based model, market-oriented model, centralisation model, and state-based model." This isn't a tech paper - the models are based on an analysis of laws and codes from around the world. 'Digital sovereignty' in this sense how countries govern the internet. But this typology has implications for technology, as it maps out different possibilities for implementation of core social services, such as digital identity. Or at least, I see that connection that can be made from this paper, which is why I'm saving it.
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