Computer science conceptualized digital identity to serve its initial market — selling its wares to governments and large organizations to manage inventories of users, employees, citizens, and customers. Computer science adopted the tenets of legal and bureaucratic identity wholesale, inclined to consider people as just another machine for lack of any imperative to think otherwise at the time. Digital identity has not been designed to rise up to the roles and operations that the vast majority...

Computer science conceptualized digital identity to serve its initial market — selling its wares to governments and large organizations to manage inventories of users, employees, citizens, and customers. Computer science adopted the tenets of legal and bureaucratic identity wholesale, inclined to consider people as just another machine for lack of any imperative to think otherwise at the time. Digital identity has not been designed to rise up to the roles and operations that the vast majority...