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Digital identity, an emergent legal concept the role and legal nature of digital identity in commercial transactions
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Title
Digital identity, an emergent legal concept [electronic resource] : the role and legal nature of digital identity in commercial transactions / by Clare Sullivan.
ISBN
9780980723007
0980723000
9780980723000
9780980723014
Published
Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, ©2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 162 pages) : illustrations.
Notes
Title from PDF title page.
Summary
This is the first full-length study that recognises and discusses digital identity in a transactional context under a national identity scheme. It contrasts the right to identity to the right to privacy in the context of a national identity scheme, and defines identity theft and its consequences. The analysis and findings are relevant to the one proposed for the United Kingdom, to other countries which have similar schemes, and to countries like Australia who have the long term goal of establishing one. Under a national identity scheme, being asked to provide 'ID' will become as commonplace as being asked one's name, and the concept of identity will become embedded in processes essential to the national economic and social order. The analysis reveals the emergence of a new legal concept of identity. This emergent concept and the associated individual rights, including the right to identity, potentially change the legal and commercial landscape.
Other formats
Print version:Sullivan, Clare Linda. Digital identity, an emergent legal concept. Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, ©2011
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 20, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156) and index.
Contents
1. Digital identity
introduction
Genesis of this book
The importance of identity
Approach of this book
Structure of this book and chapter synopsis
2. Digital identity
a new legal concept
Central argument
Registered digital identity in the United Kingdom
The relationship between transaction identity and database identity in the United Kingdom
Distinguishing Solove's 'digital person'
Digital identity in Australia
3. Digital identity
the nature of the concept
Registered digital identity
The role and nature of transaction identity
Is transaction identity the legal person?
Transaction identity is the legal person
4. Digital identity
inherent vulnerabilities
The fallibilities of the identifying information
5. Digital identity
consequential individual rights
Identity distinguished from privacy
The right to identity under the scheme
An express right to identity
Right to identity under European human rights law
The protection provided by the right to privacy
6. Digital identity
protection
The wrong and the harm caused by misuse of transaction identity
Identity theft distinguished from identity fraud
Is identity theft really theft?
Identity theft is theft
Criminal damage
7. Digital identity
conclusion
A new concept of identity and a new perspective
'Tomorrow is nearer than you think'
8. Bibliography
Articles/books/reports
Case law
Legislation and bills
Treaties
Other sources
9. Index.
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