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6 Law, Tech. & Hum. 1 (2024)

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Volume 6 (1) 2024

LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANS
https://doi.org/10.5204/thj.3096

Why Are There So Many Digital Identities?
Mitchell Landrigan
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Stephen Wilson
Lockstep Consulting Pty Limited, Australia
Hamish Fraser
Bird & Bird, Australia
Abstract

Keywords: Digital identity; federated identity; personal identity; profiling.
Overview
The essay contributes to the existing field of research in relation to digital identity by providing an original explanation for why
many people have so many digital identities. This article threads sociological, technical and economic materials with empirical
information to propose that people have many digital identities because there is no solid business case or legal risk management
model for a reusable digital identity. Economically important digital identities mostly relate to and derive from corresponding
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