Identity crisis: Global challenges of identity protection in a networked world

Modern identity is valuable, multi-functional and complex. Today we typically manage multiple versions of self, made visible in digital trails distributed widely across offline and online spaces. Yet, technology-mediated identity leads us into crisis. Enduring accessibility to greater and growing personal details online, alongside increases in both computing power and data linkage techniques, fuel fears of identity exploitation. Will it be stolen? Who controls it? Are others aggregating or analysing our identities to infer new data about us without our knowledge or consent? New challenges present themselves globally around these fears, as manifested by concerns over massive online data breaches and automated identification technologies, which also highlight the conundrum faced by governments about how to safeguard individuals' interests on the Web while striking a fair balance with wider public interests. This paper reflects upon some of these problems as part of the inter-disciplinary, transatlantic ‘SuperIdentity’ project investigating links between cyber and real-world identifiers. To meet the crisis, we explore the relationship between identity and digitisation from the perspective of policy and law. We conclude that traditional models of identity protection need supplementing with new ways of thinking, including pioneering ‘technical-legal’ initiatives that are sensitive to the different risks that threaten our digital identity integrity. Only by re-conceiving identity dynamically to appreciate the increasing capabilities for connectivity between different aspects of our identity across the cyber and the physical domains, will policy and law be able to keep up with and address the challenges that lie ahead in our progressively networked world.     

求解公共行政身份危机的三种理论途径

80年代以来,随着社会治理活动中市场神话的确立,公共行政陷入了一场严重的身份危机之中。作为20世纪公共行政理论的主要贡献者,美国行政学界在这场危机中做出了许多尝试,提出了应对危机的三种途径。以黑堡学派为代表的学者群体开展了一场重建公共行政的理论运动,试图重建公共行政的宪法身份;以弗雷德里克森为代表的学者群体则着眼于公共行政的“公共”方面,试图寻找到公共行政的精神;以登哈特为代表的学者群体从公民参与的角度出发,更新了公共服务的内涵,并试图根据公共服务的概念来重构公共行政的身份。在某种意义上,这三种途径都只是对近代政治传统的简单回归,因而无法解决通过政治与行政的分离而产生,现在则已进入一个新的时代中的公共行政的身份难题。公共行政的身份危机仍然悬而未决。     

生物识别技术在警务工作中的应用

为了维护社会治安的正常秩序,警务工作要建立有效社会控制机制,应用生物识别技术防范及处置影响社会稳定的案件和事件。生物识别技术发展迅速,在警务工作应用广泛。     

基于新生代农民工身份认知现状调查与分析——以杭州为例

新生代农民工在自我身份认知上,一方面表现出对融入城市的期盼;另一方面,出现自我对身份认知迷茫、困惑,导致新生代农民工个人认知失调及行为的选择性差异。其群体内部日趋显著的分化也逐渐引起社会重视。"新生代农民工"这种分化所产生的个体对身份认知的不同应引起社会高度重视。通过对新生代农民工身份认知现状的调查与分析,探究影响新生代农民工身份认知相关影响因素。