{"id":3368,"date":"2010-03-11T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:25:48","slug":"online-identity-concept-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/03\/online-identity-concept-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Identity Concept Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/identity\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3464\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/files\/2010\/03\/identity-concept-nologo1.png\" alt=\"identity-concept-series\" width=\"180\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your online identity, which is key to enabling a personalized Web experience, is not simply a single atom of data. It is a dense cluster of your accounts (e.g. e-mail, banking,  shopping, etc.),  relationships and other personal information, spread across the Web and throughout all of your personal computing devices.<\/p>\n<p>Your Web browser, as your most trusted relationship in your life online, has nearly perfect knowledge of everything you do on the Web. We envision a world where your browser will play an even more active and critical role in helping you control and shape your online experience.<\/p>\n<p>To realize this vision, we need to increase the browser&#8217;s understanding of your online identity and provide a platform for building new capabilities that securely take advantage of this rich, dynamic set of data that represents the digital &#8220;you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so, today we are <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/identity\/\">announcing an initiative<\/a> as part of the Mozilla Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/\">Concept Series<\/a> to explore these and other new concepts for online identity in the browser.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ideas, Use Cases and Open Questions<\/strong><br \/>\nHere are some of the initial ideas, use cases and open questions to help get things started.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you connect with new sites and people online, how can your browser help you manage all of your account information?<\/li>\n<li>How can your browser help when you discover something cool on the Web that you want to share with your friends?<\/li>\n<li>What role can your browser play in helping you manage your Web contacts and relationships?<\/li>\n<li>What can your  browser do to enable you to securely share data with websites and third-parties in return for context-rich Web experiences?<\/li>\n<li>How can your browser help you manage and stay informed about how and where your data and data about you flows on the Web?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guiding Principles<\/strong><br \/>\nWe believe any solution that helps people take control and manage their online identity should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ensure that it is easy for people to set up their own services (as needed) with freely available open standards-based tools<\/li>\n<li>provide users with the ability to fully control and customize their online experience, including whether and how their data should be shared with their family, their friends, and third-parties<\/li>\n<li>respect individual privacy (e.g. client-side encryption by default with the ability to delegate access rights)<\/li>\n<li>leverage existing open standards and propose new ones as needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Initial Concepts and Prototypes<\/strong><br \/>\nOver the next few weeks, you will see a wide range of activities as we begin a focused exploration through the Mozilla Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/\">Concept Series<\/a> and host discussions with the wider Internet community about your online identity. We hope that you&#8217;ll add your voice to the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>To kick things off, we will be releasing a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/identity\/\">initial concepts and prototypes<\/a> to provide thought, facilitate discussion, and inspire future design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Get Involved<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more about and explore the <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/conceptseries\/identity\/\">initial concepts and prototypes for Online Identity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/weave\/\">Mozilla Labs Weave  project<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Discuss,  debate and add to the conversation around online identity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla-labs-online-identity\">Online Identity Concepts discussion  group<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Join  us in #labs on irc.mozilla.org.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u2013 Ragavan Srinivasan on behalf of the Mozilla Labs team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your online identity, which is key to enabling a personalized Web experience, is not simply a single atom of data. It is a dense cluster of your accounts (e.g. e-mail, banking, shopping, etc.), relationships and other personal information, spread across &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/03\/online-identity-concept-series\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19480,8633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}