Digital Identity, the problem of privacy and anonymity in today's world. How banking systems and e-cash systems like Paypal exploit your data, how your actions influence the ones next to us, and why Bitcoin might be the right solution towards data ownership. Presented at Transylvania Crypto Conference, Cluj Napoca, 10-13th of October, 2019.

1. Digital
Identity
anonymity.
privacy.
Roxana
Nasoi
#TCConf19

2. About Me
Community + Technology
Advocate
Mad Data Scientist
Entrepreneur
Proud Chess Player

3. Bragging Rights

4. Digital Identity
=
Real Life Identity
What Makes You…
YOU?
Shoshana Zuboff:
“behavioral data problem”
||
/
Google business model

5. No service really starts with the intention of
exploiting user data. However, as the service
grows and matures, it becomes corruptible.
Many current services and platforms feed off
their own growth to justify their corruptible
nature.
Technology is Neither Good nor Bad…
The way we use it, defines its purpose.

6. Anonymity vs. Privacy
• Private Data >> Private Identity >> PRIVACY
• Collective Data >> Collective Identity >> ANONYMITY
• Citizenship:
The price of “admission” is the rest of your life.

7. Auditors. Customer Services. Fraud agencies and AML
services. Financial Products. Commercial Partners.
Marketing and PR. Operational Services. Group Enterprises.
Legal. Other Services.
Commercial Partners can access your data, as well through
a service called PayPal for Partners (Merchants use it)
Paypal: e-money system. Today…
Paypal shares your data with 30+ partners.

8. Loan Risk Assessment System
Source: Tomsett et all (2018)
[Operators; Executors] = Bank Employees
[Creators] = Developers of the system
[Examiners] = Agents tasked w/
compliance, audits, forensic investigations.
[Decision Subjects] = loan applicants
[Data Subjects] = Individuals whose data
are contained in the learning environment
(source of teaching the algorithm)

10. Breachlevelindex.com
The World. Today…

11. DATA
=
Digital DNA
GDPR:
Focuses on the WHY, not on the HOW.
Data belongs to the user, but..
Data processes and data structures
that are used in manipulating the user
data are the property of the service
provider/service owner.
Thanks for nothin’, EU law makers…

12. Bitcoin
Serving
The
People
• Collective Identity
• Own Keys. Nodes. Own your data
• No central authority behind the data
processes & data structures
• Collective Consensus
• Risk management of the NETWORK, not
the INDIVIDUAL  Proof of Work
• Privacy Layers can be built around it
• Can use tools for Anonymity (Tor & others)
• Borderless. Immediate. Secure.

13. • "[...] an entirely other way of “talking” and
of doing something that has been
considered central to the philosophical
enterprise since its inception—the cultural
production of truth."
• "Establishes and is an operational truth
procedure." (1.2, p 1360)
• "inextricable from a practical interrogation
of identity, [...] If being able to verifiably be
itself makes of anything a unit in a currency
system, the system itself is the Being of
such beings." (1.3, p 1361)
• Nick Land (philosopher, book on Bitcoin)
Bitcoin
is more
than just a
financial
system

14. Thank You!
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