Digital Identity Wallets and their Semantic Contradictions

Smethurst, Reilly

Reference : Digital Identity Wallets and their Semantic Contradictions


	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Multidisciplinary, general & others Business & economic sciences : Management information systems
	Focus Areas :	Security, Reliability and Trust
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/55165

Title :	Digital Identity Wallets and their Semantic Contradictions
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Smethurst, Reilly [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX >]
Publication date :	11-May-2023
Main document title :	ECIS 2023 Research Papers
Author, co-author :	Smethurst, Reilly
Pages :	22
Peer reviewed :	Yes
On invitation :	No
Audience :	International
Event name :	Thirty-first European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023)
Event date :	from 13-06-2023 to 16-06-2023
Event organizer :	Association for Information Systems
Event place (city) :	Kristiansand
Event country :	Norway
Keywords :	[en] blockchain ; digital identity ; digital wallet ; surveillance
Abstract :	[en] In the fight for individual privacy against online surveillance and personal data breaches, blockchain developers often pitch encrypted wallets as solutions. Five examples from 2021 and 2022 involve Big Tech companies or large European governments. On the private side, Jack Dorsey’s Block company announced the Web5 Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Service. Meta and Twitter added support for fictional identities – tokenised avatars or profile pictures like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks, registered to Web3 wallets that putatively offer “self-sovereign ownership”. On the public side, the European Commission funded SSI wallet trials for digital diploma credentials. Germany’s federal government launched a mobile driving licence (mDL), stored in a SSI wallet. This one term, “SSI”, is associated with varying sets of technologies and ethical principles. Following complaints that “SSI” generates confusion, I offer a typology that highlights four semantic contradictions as well as a concept map to guide future research.
Research centres :	Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
Funders :	Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students ; General public
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/55165
Other URL :	https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2023_rp/288
FnR project :	FnR ; FNR13342933 > Gilbert Fridgen > DFS > Paypal-fnr Pearl Chair In Digital Financial Services > 01/01/2020 > 31/12/2024 > 2019

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