Legal IIW Early Draft

The time is right to bring together different legal and policy efforts around online digital identity.

The technological developments coming out of the user-centric digital identity community (Identity Commons) are moving ahead: the social web is adopting OpenID and oAuth technologies, and card selector tools are continuing to be deployed on client systems.

People being online isn't new. Social networks are not new.

What is new is the ability for individuals to use emerging user-centric tools to change how they can share information under their control. While technical support for this ability is maturing, this technical capability is not yet supported by common norms, easy to understand agreements, and legal frameworks.

Scholars, lawyers, and analyst groups are all interested in addressing this subject.

We are calling together these interested parties who have something to contribute to getting

Terms of Service and End User License Agreements that are
 * human readable,
 * clear,
 * have reasonable terms
 * are respectful of people's dignity
 * give people control over uses and disclosures of their information

Interoperability between social networks across legal jurisdictions.

Other legal norms and innovations that are needed to make these new techonlogies work

The responsibilities of Identity Oracles Identity Rights Agreements - should they exist, what should they contain, and how should they be enforced? How might Limited Liability Personas be formed and what are the legal standards for their 'unmasking'?

Using the model of the Internet Identity Workshop, the IIW organizers are bringing together a gathering of legal scholars, privacy officers in companies working with personal data, philosophers, technologists and regular end-users to move the ball forward on these issues and do so in a format that does not bore ourselves to death with presentations but involves us actively in conversation.

Related Conference http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5685