Re: No Phone Home statement by ACLU, EFF, Brave, CDT, etc.

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> Is anyone here fighting the good fight against over-identification?
> There’s a tiny glimmer of it in these threads - laws are changing to
> require authenticated internet access, with the presumption that government
> ID must be shown to get at more and more of the internet that used to be
> open and free. Age verification prior to access is the not-so-thin end of
> the wedge that leads further into the dystopia. Why do people assume that
> presentation of government ID like mDL will be a prerequisite for access?
> Isn’t that the major threat we all face?
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This is exactly my main concern with the recent "proof of personhood"
credential paper -- not that the credential type it described is bad, but
that it chose "personhood" as the label for what it attests, and thereby
encourages the idea that attestations of personhood should come from
governments or at least from big institutions. Governments and big
institutions should not be in the business of certifying personhood, but
rather status vis-a-vis their organization. Personhood is derived from
being a member of the human species, and has nothing whatsoever to do with
a relationship to a particular organization; its attestation by other
humans of high reputation should be definitive.