Exploring the Transformation of Identity in the Digital Sphere

This essay delves into the multifaceted transformations of identity within the digital sphere. It begins by defining digital identity as an individual's online representation, encompassing data, profiles, and online activities. The essay explores how this digital presence is shaped by online accounts, data collection, and the increasing reliance on digital platforms. It examines the implications of digital identity, including issues of privacy, security, and the potential for misuse of personal information. The essay also highlights the role of technology in shaping digital identities, particularly in developing nations, and underscores the importance of establishing robust frameworks and norms to ensure responsible digital identity management. Furthermore, the essay analyzes how digital interactions affect values and behaviors, and it emphasizes the need for secure and trustworthy systems to protect individuals and organizations. Finally, it concludes by emphasizing the need for individuals to be aware of how technology is evolving and its impact on their identity.

How does identity change
in the digital world?

2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

3
Digital identity is an information of a body about an individual or an organization which
exists online. Thus, identity is the most fundamental to human beings. Identity is what a human
being is an integration of personal background, learnt and innate behaviours and beliefs. Human
identity is essential as it occurs in connection to others (Holgado, 2018). It appears concerning
social and economic structures in which humans live. The present study will shed a light upon
how an identity change in a digital world by using different examples.
Across history, it is frequently observed that hard-fought wars and revolution where
people have their own rights and recognitions. The initial description of the citizen and police in
the constitution of the US, the Magna Carta and Ancient Greece were all efforts which described
the social contract amongst institutions and people (Echikson, 2019). If desirable or not, identity
is becoming digitalized through which people accessed information about anyone at any time
with a specific device that linked through IP addresses. This digital identity is not usually a
material of online avatar on webpages. It is adding the increasing and data’s mass evolving,
history and profiles or human activities on the internet. It is connected to the implications made
about individuals, depending on gathered information's some of them might misuse the data as
well. Nowadays, the average user on the internet has more than 90 online accounts and is
probably more than two hundred.
The controllers of such logins on the internet, do not adhered with prescribed laws and
regulation, but shared the data to other organization for a purpose of earning. The standard
norms’ lack of stand for the systemic consequence is more than collecting its portions (Echikson,
2019). The outcome for an individual is a lessening comprised of or regulation over how they are
presented on the internet. With that digital depiction, most of the people come to know how
people live in their own world and what they are doing during a specific tenure. People are not
conscious of those, as mentioned above. Any conversation on determining digital identities must
begin and conclude with the person born in completely digital work and this reflects such
identities stand for that individual’s future.
According to Toth (2020), trust must be designed in the outset frameworks and require to
be disposed to comprehend what upright looks as depending on values that respect people's
freedom. With the modification of digital interaction encompassing many things related to the

4
internet, it frequently changes the values of those people who employing systems of digital
identity system around the globe. According to Othman and Callahan (2021), these changes must
incorporate programmes in developing nations to carry essential services and presence to the
neediest. On the one hand, using Digital technologies approximated one billion individuals have
no formal identity that helps to solve until 2030 by Sustainable development goals. Technology
has also a fundamental role in giving access to education and healthcare, and transporting social
and financial inclusion to relations and youth worldwide.
According to José and Peñalvo (2019), “There is no time to waste, though individuals
must also remember that a poorly designed digital identity can be worse than no identity at all.
Humans need to safeguard against the possibility of making the lives of the most vulnerable
people on the planet. Individuals need norms and a shared understanding of what a good digital
identity looks like”. As people's online activities and digital connectivity increase, digital
identities are also growing. Regularly, people go through authentication processes that provide
others confidence in them emphasise on who they claim to be, or their right to correspond with
or service usage. In many organization, for safety purpose different account logins or biometric
is also used as facial recognition, fingerprint or eye scans to reach services and conducts
interaction digitally on the internet. People spend their most of the time to make digital profiles
containing unchosen, permanent qualities as the birthplace or assigned attributes and biometrics,
such as people’s government identification numbers or names. This might affect their overall
career because they waste their time on such things and at last only their interactions with others
will increases.
Institutions and people are utilising historical data from sources to make the implication
that assists to make decisions or judgements (Bazarhanova and Smolander, 2020). For instance, a
car broker may look at driving, age, credit history and lawful records to double-check identities
of the customer and evaluate if they are at low or high risk.

5
Figure 1 Digital Identity
(Source: Toth, 2020)
As digital identities increases, chances of engagement towards each other also enhanced
because it is simple to use and also provides user satisfaction. On the other side, through digital
identify, company also creates an accurate and complete view of a customers that leads to
maximize sales. It provides value and maintains trust to give users convenient, customised
services, however it also increases risks as well. Moreover, the theft of identity and service
provision depends on vast amounts of data from various sources to authenticate people
seamlessly and reliably. This linked accountability also support users' security and as a result,
individual or an organization might reach towards their aim (Holgado, 2018). Various
perceptions of the culture of personalisation and privacy make this issue even more severe.
Further, different administrations also proceeding towards a digital identity system which helps
in delivering efficient public service and robust autonomous procedure within many
organizations.
By summing up above it has been concluded that there is an increased number of
associations who confirm computerized personalities for individuals, gadgets and different

6
substances. Through digital identity interaction between people increases along with rise of
many risks. Thus, by analysing market trend, more than 90 billion people have their own account
in Internet which assists them to engaged and also determine any personal as well as professional
information. Therefore, it can be stated that identity changes by evolving advance technology
and this also modify the living standards as well as mind-set of people.

7
REFERENCES
Online
Bazarhanova, A. and Smolander, K., 2020. [online] Scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu. Available
at: <https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/64527/0633.pdf> [Accessed
7 February 2021].
Echikson, W., n.d. 2019. EUROPE’S DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION OPPORTUNITY. [online]
Idservice.com. Available at: <https://idservice.com/~/media/tfr-europe-digital-
identification-opportunity.pdf> [Accessed 8 February 2021].
Holgado, A., 2018. [online] Repositorio.grial.eu. Available at:
<https://repositorio.grial.eu/bitstream/grial/1339/1/PD.pdf> [Accessed 9 February 2021].
José, F. and Peñalvo, G., 2019. Managing digital identity as researchers. [online]
Repositorio.grial.eu. Available at:
<https://repositorio.grial.eu/bitstream/grial/1695/1/editorial12-3.pdf> [Accessed 8
February 2021].
Othman, A. and Callahan, J., 2021. [online] Arxiv.org. Available at:
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.07127.pdf> [Accessed 8 February 2021].
Toth, K., 2021. [online] Patentimages.storage.googleapis.com. Available at:
<https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/48/24/82/82e9b6119d2c96/
US10756906.pdf> [Accessed 8 February 2021].