Privacies

In 2005 Gill Wildman (Plot) and Rob van Kranenburg hosted a seminar on RFID at the Design Council in London titled The Elephant in the Room: Bringing Innovation into RFID Applications. There was no no doubt that RFID had the potential to be a paradigm-shifting technology we stated and everyone is pleased when they get the technology to work, and that is difficult enough, but they are not building into the pilots the human dimensions that could make the pilots beneficial in a wider way.

We focused on moving from privacy to privacies, which acknowledged that in a hybrid environment we leave different traces and might want to build temporary personalities around these traces, not exposing our entire personalites all the time.

Privacy is thus splintered up into a large set of privacies. These are made by you as an individual. These policies correspond with their counterpart in the distributed network of databases. In this way your entire identity is not needed in order to service you on a particular activity.

The distributed network of databases forms the next layer of smart connections. These are the results, the hints, advice that is played back to you. The first always puts you into contact with real people in your neighbourhood. If that is not possible the second offer goes global immediately and will suggest relations and connections that might be far away physically.