Privacy: Essentially Contested, a Family Resemblance Concept, or a Family of Conceptions?

Digital Identities and Verifiable Credentials

“…Finally, there are multiple opportunities for socio-technical research into decentralized digital identity systems (Pinch and Bijker 1984;Sahay and Robey 1996;Bryant 2006). Socio-technical researchers can study, in particular, the effects of legal frameworks, cultural values, and privacy debates on the adoption and use of decentralized digital identity systems (Leidner and Kayworth 2006;O'Hara 2018;Fry and Renieris 2020); they can examine the different problem diagnoses that decentralized digital identity solutions are expected to address (Williams and Hummelbrunner 2010;Checkland and Poulter 2020); and they can explore the crucial relations between the various governance structures and technical designs (Zwitter et al 2020). It is also worth examining if a proximity to SSIrelated controversies affects decentralized digital identity projects (Ghent University 2020).…”