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Open and shut case
[Dave Birch] Earlier this week I went along to the Identity Society Open Space meeting up at the top of the BT Tower, which was fun because I’d never been up there before after all these years. Unlike many people I was talking to at the meeting, I was never taken up it as a kid, before it was closed to the general public because of the threat of terrorism. Anyway, the Open Space was very interesting even though I only had time to sit in on two of the discussion groups. I first joined in with the group who were discussing what identity actually is, because I thought that would be a useful basis for further discussions, but in fact it served to remind me that there are many different viewpoints and that’s one of the reasons why it’s so difficult to create a rigorous model for digital identity. Then I sat in on discussion about whether you own your own identity which (setting aside the legal input to the discussion, which was that we hadn’t agreed on what "you", "own" or "identity" meant) also led to enjoyable debate.
