Identity Proofing
Identity Proofing is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
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Digital Identity
Failures in identity proofing can expose people to identity fraud, unauthorised decisions, coerced data use, loss of access, unfair exclusion, surveillance and diminished human agency.
8 canonical Subtopics in this Topic.
Identity Resolution
Identity Resolution is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Identity Portability
Identity Portability is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Pseudonymous Identity
Pseudonymous Identity is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Multi-Persona Identity
Multi-Persona Identity is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Identity Recovery
Identity Recovery is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Identity Lifecycle Management
Identity Lifecycle Management is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Cross-Domain Identity Interoperability
Cross-Domain Identity Interoperability is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within digital identity.
Stories from Digital Identity
Scenario narratives — not empirical findings.
Identity Proofing
Ama had three documents and no identity the system could accept. Her surname was spelled differently across records, one date had been entered in another calendar system and an old address no longer existed. Each documen
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The medication warning appeared in the wrong man’s record. Two similar names, overlapping birth dates and a legacy identifier had slowly merged separate lives into one digital profile. Staff had corrected individual erro
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I could prove that I had built bridges. I could not make the new system believe me. My qualifications were valid, my employment history was documented and my referees were reachable. None of it moved cleanly across borde
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“Tell me what changed,” the interviewer said. Lucas paused. “First, tell me what you measured.” Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in pseudonymous identity, especially where identity, consent, a
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The family called it “the second shift”: the hours spent reconciling what different services believed about the same person. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in multi-persona identity, especia
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At the remote site, a plausible alert could stop production, while a missed alert could put a life at risk. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in identity recovery, especially where identity, co
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The system crossed the border in a day. Its assumptions about language, authority and trust did not travel nearly as well. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in identity lifecycle management, es
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The demonstration succeeded inside the test range. The real question was whether it would remain dependable after communications, weather and command assumptions changed. Current digital and institutional systems show ma
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