Yeah I am definitely down for the IDESG meeting, as long as my work
schedule doesn't conflict with it, and I can carry four passengers.
Speculation on strategies for identity protection:
Assume that we can win on any/all issues regarding "names and
nyms." There still remains the problem of other unique identifiers,
including your face, your voiceprint, your gait (posture while
walking), and now (according to Dystopia Online, er uh Wired
Magazine) the thermal pattern in the air that is caused by the way
your breath passes through your mouth and nose on the way out.
After all, what good is choosing your names/nyms, when something
else about you can be used by the Bigs to tie you into the Facebook
Timeline you never knew you had (because you don't have a Facebook
account in the first place, or so you thought)?
Here's a little detail from the intel community, which I'm quite
sure nobody here knows about (as far as I know it is not
classified): face matching can be performed solely on the geometry
of the "seven holes": the pupils of your eyes, your ears, your
nostrils, and your mouth. Geometry as in, the distances, angles,
and ratios, of the measurements between them.
Copyright laws protect the right of _owners of products_ to be free
from having their _products_ copied against their will. What about
making the assertion that all of the uniquely-identifying
characteristics of your face and voice are also not merely natural
occurrences but are _your property_ in some way? No doubt this
would be fought bitterly by Facebook and Google (may they die
ignominious corporate deaths and rot in their graves in bankruptcy
court), but that strategy is worthwhile just to stake out the
territory.
However: what if you go about making your face an art piece? Then
it's no longer an act of nature it's a copyrightable property by
every legal definition. "Camouflage makeup" is an area of
"practical fashion" being pursued here and there for exactly this
purpose. Strictly speaking it won't camouflage you, as long as your
eyes etc. are visible. But it could be used to assert that your
face is a canvas upon which you have painted a copyrighted artwork
over which you can exert some control.
So:
First thing we need is copyrightable artwork. That's easy enough,
get some makeup and draw something interesting on your cheeks and
chin and around your eyes and on your ears. If you have a kid, have
them draw stuff on your face occasionally, that adds the cuteness
factor. Note that image-processing software can probably remove
some of that artwork particularly if it's in wild colors, so if you
stick to the normal human skin spectrum from pink through all the
shades of tan, brown, and nearly-black, it'll be harder to strip off
the artwork and reveal the skin within. (In any case, that usage of
image-processing software is arguably identical to producing "mixes"
from snips of copyrighted songs, thus illegal as hell, all the more
so because there must first be an illegal copy in order to proceed.)
Second thing you need is a copyright announcement that is lawful.
As a practical matter you can't write it in makeup on your forehead
every day... but....
How'bout a headband that goes around your head, and that contains
the copyright announcement, for example: "Copyright 2013, Nym Media
(or whatever name, see below) all rights reserved; unauthorized
duplication of this facial artwork will be subject to legal
action."
Third thing we need is a legal entity other than your individual
person, that can sue copyright violators, for example "Nym Media, an
unincorporated association" or "a project of (whatever
nonprofit)..." That will serve as an umbrella for everyone using
this method, and it can hire lawyers to go after offenders. The
association could sell those headbands (you'd need a new one every
year) as part of its membership, and the yearly dues wouldn't have
to be much at all (target: $12/year) if enough people subscribed.
Fourth thing we need is to cover up those other "holes," and
fortunately there are ways of doing that without obviously wearing a
mask.
Mirrored sunglasses take care of the eyes.
A dust-mask of the type commonly worn to contain coughs and sneezes
takes care of your nose and mouth (really: you don't want to spread
germs, do you?). A dust mask also obscures the thermal pattern made
by your breath in the air (lovely coincidence, that!).
And a knit cap or many other styles of hat, covers your ears
nicely. The good thing about hats is, there is already
long-standing precedent for refusal to remove a hat in various
places: the Quakers famously revolted against "hat honor" (keyword
search that phrase, use Ixquick.com as your privacy-protected search
engine) and were successful in certain venues (courtrooms may not be
one of those).
Merely encouraging the wearing of hats, something that was an
_extremely_ common style up until the point where President Kennedy
was seen in public without a hat and the style changed, would make a
dent in the problem. (How'bout a SudoRoom outing to a hat store
some day?) There are also hats from some national traditions, that
include little flaps that cover your ears: practical in cold places
such as Russia in the winter, always kinda' cute, and even useful
for reducing noise.
Alternately, over-the-ear headphones or hearing protectors (or a
"hearing aid" system that combines hearing protectors and
amplification with compression to block loud sounds) will take care
of the ears, though your hair (or absence thereof for guys as we get
older) will still be an issue.
This leaves enough facial real estate to cover easily with a couple
of clever drawings in the makeup style of your choice.
An alternative approach to makeup, would be to use the "fashion
accessories" as "embodiments" of copyrighted artwork, for example
the headbands, face masks, and hats. These could be issued in
matching or complementary/synergistic designs, that, when worn
together, form the complete art piece, thus alleviating the need to
become a makeup artist (all the more helpful for people who are
allergic to makeup).
At first, folks who go this route will stick out like the proverbial
sore thumbs. But it could become a fashion. Dammit, it _should_
become a fashion. With enough people doing it, we can throw a
monkeywrench into face-based surveillance & stalking
(tracking).
I have other strategies in mind for dealing with voiceprint and so
on, about which more some other time. Hint: voiceprint is not just
about frequency distribution, it's about rhythm as well. Watch
those hard consonants!
-G.
=====
On 13-04-05-Fri 3:41 PM, aestetix wrote:
Oh hai everyone!
If you're one of the rare few who hasn't heard me rant about
online
identity, now is your chance!
May 7-9: IIW workshop (Computer History Museum)
May 9-10: IDESG Plenary (see forwarded email)
There are two big events coming up in May that I feel are very
important. The first is IIW (Internet Identity Workshop), an
un-conference where people can collaborate on what they think and
want
to future of online identity to be. http://iiw16.eventbrite.com/
for
more.
The second is more personal to me, and the agenda email I'm
forwarding, which takes place down the street from IIW with some
crossover. It's the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, which is a
bunch of government and corporation types trying to create policy
for
online identity. Pointing specifically to the "Use Case workshop",
we
want to bring as many people in favor of nym (online pseudonyms
and
anonyms) rights to educate the IDESG plenary, and make sure our
views
are heard. While we're already planning a few use cases, we think
it's
important that everyone has a chance to be heard, even if
(especially
if) you're non-technical.
If getting to the south bay is a challenge for you, we're going to
try
to set up a carpooling system. Please let me know if you're
interested.
It's also worth noting that the IDESG plenary is completely free
:)
Cheers,
aestetix
PS: you can find more info on http://www.nymrights.org
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Agenda Announced for IDESG May Plenary Meeting
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:12:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Identity Ecosystem Steering Group Secretariat
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Reply-To: idecosystem@trustedfederal.com
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* 2:30 p.m.: Privacy Committee Report on PEM 2.0
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