[CAnet - news] The ethical implications of identity management, web services, grids etc

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[Here is an excellent report by UNESCO on the ethical implications of
identity management, web services, grids, semantic web, RFID and other
emerging ICT technologies. One of the major underpinnings of these new
technologies is the need for identity management systems. As this report
points out there are some very significant and troubling ethical issues with
respect to identity management systems in terms of privacy, security and
access to public information.  I am constantly amazed at the rush of
university CIOs to embrace identity management systems (IdM). There is no
better technology than IdM, that can be easily be abused in order to keep
track of pesky protestors or those who might have alternate points of view.
To my mind universities should be at the vanguard of fighting the deployment
of such technologies or at least finding alternate solutions to today's
typical IdM platforms. Thanks to Walter Stewart for this pointer -- BSA]

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001499/149992E.pdf


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