Jim Flynn's TED Talk at TEDx Amherst 2019 about online identity and privacy. He discusses the dangers of letting private companies claim our identities and behavioral data, and then use that data to influence us in the service of some other party's economic or political interests.

1. “We're Being Owned: Why We Must
Take Control of Our Online Identities”
By Jim Flynn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CddSSRNR7u0
https://jamespflynn.com
https://www.tedxamherst.org
April 7, 2019

2. KUWA
“To be” in Swahili
You must be a unique human.

3. ...a global, perpetual, nonrevocable and
sublicensable license…

4. Contract
Law

5. Attributes
Behavior
AI
Make money
selling
predictions
Your Digital Self
Influence

6. Shown to 61M
US Voters in 2010
Resulted in 238K
additional votes
From Bond, et al in Nature at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11421

7. Buy a beer
Driver’s License
Photo, name,
address, DOB,
eye color, height,
etc.
Get on a lift
Profile
Photo, name,
Address, DOB, etc.
Your Digital Self
Credit
History
Wellness Location

8. Buy a beer
Cryptographic
proof that you
are over 21
Get on a ski lift
Cryptographic
proof that you
have a pass
There is no linkage between
the proofs.
Self-Sovereign Identity

9. Individual Sovereignty
What’s disclosed
How it’s used
Right to delete it
Right to move it

10. It’s inevitable.
There’s too much money involved.
Innovation!
They consented!

13. See the video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CddSSRNR7u0