{"id":3705,"date":"2014-09-30T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2014-09-30T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:53:42","slug":"aestetix-on-nymrights-protecting-identity-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2014\/09\/30\/aestetix-on-nymrights-protecting-identity-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"aestetix on NymRights: Protecting Identity in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a name? More than one? Does it matter to you who knows it? As digital systems become more integrated into our lives, these questions are becoming very important. We&#8217;re in the midst of a literal identity crisis where your identity is quickly becoming, rather than something you define, a social construct that is granted to you. <\/p>\n<p>aestetix, after being suspended twice by Google Plus for violating their &#8220;Real Names&#8221; policy, helped found NymRights, which has consulted on President Obama&#8217;s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). In this talk he guides an exploration of the philosophy of names and identity, the digital systems we&#8217;ve created over the past decades, and the challenges that arise when the systems come into conflict with individual safety and freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-09-30_aestetix\/2014-09-30_aestetix.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-09-30_aestetix\/2014-09-30_aestetix.mov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlso <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-09-30_aestetix\/2014-09-30_aestetix.ogv\">in ogg for download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheon\/2014\/09\/aestetix\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a name? More than one? Does it matter to you who knows it? As digital systems become more integrated into our lives, these questions are becoming very important. We&#8217;re in the midst of a literal identity crisis where your identity is quickly becoming, rather than something you define, a social construct that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}