Comments on: Identity by anthropomorphic analogy http://idealgovernment.com/2005/06/identity_by_anthropomorphic_analogy/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: W http://idealgovernment.com/2005/06/identity_by_anthropomorphic_analogy/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:57:50 +0000 http://identity_by_anthropomorphic_analogy#comment-447 The emotions this debate generates suggests is not at the level “is the CSA a good idea and wil it make a good IT project”. It challenges our view of the world as Galileo did, or perhaps like “The Prisoner”. The ID project appears to imply we are to be viewed as ciphers. We feel different about it.

I find Luke’s unpacking of the issue into brain, mind and body helpful. And if it was clearly just our government-mediated identity that was being coldly digitised, searched, mined – and we felt that our real identity was unsullied by the process – perhaps we would be less upset about it.

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