From dogs to verified profiles: the end of anonymity on the Internet?
summary
Maritere Nieto Galán reviews the decline of online anonymity as AI, massive bots and advanced surveillance push platforms toward verified identity systems to combat spam, disinformation and malicious automation. She examines technical and social trade-offs of digital identity solutions — including the role of blockchain — and discusses how to design identity verification that is secure without becoming excessive control, plus the architectural choices today that will determine future levels of privacy and anonymity online.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:06Digital privacy origins
- 4:14Anonymity to online identity
- 7:43Bots and AI impact
- 11:18Is the internet in decline?
- 13:04Age verification and regulation
- 15:32Sovereign digital identity
- 21:55Verifiable credentials and DIDs
- 24:23Privacy by design
- 27:34Post-quantum cryptography
- 33:54Future of digital identity
- 36:44Summary
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