Identity

Time to Diia

I’ve been in Kyiv for nearly two months now and having a great time. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the 24-hour train ride from Warsaw to Kyiv and the occasional air raid siren, visiting…

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Smilepay

Mastercard wants to let you pay with your smile.

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Identity

This land is my land, this land ain’t your land

How does someone without a record of their most valuable asset acquire a mortgage and retain their home? Unfortunately, they often don’t.

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Identity

The Collectors

Regulators could go a long way in fixing what’s wrong with the Internet if they made Big Tech choose to be a community or a service provider, because trying to be both is clearly not working.

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Identity

The Decentralists – Epsiode 11: The Psychology of Identity with Dr. Agnieszka Rychwalska

People share so much about themselves online. Is this a result of some unchangeable human trait?

Or is Big Tech, forcing their users to divulge too much about themselves in order to make money from advertising? 

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Identity must be a Human Right

What if you don’t have any identity documents? What kind of life can you expect?

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Identity

Use me or Lose me

Your username and the metadata associated with it are not owned by you. Even the name tells the story. It’s not ownername for a reason: you don’t own your data – you merely access and ‘use’ it.

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