Privacy: Confusion of Identities in our Daily Life

Privacy: Confusion of Identities

Wednesday 4I Convener: Akika Orita

Notes-taker(s): Akika ORITA & Kazue SAKO

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

privacy, identities, real name, after death

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

• Two topics are introduced. The first one is marriage and surname choice case in Japan as an example of identities and privacy issue. Name change reflects one’s personal life regardless of one’s intention such as marriage or divorce. The second one is victims’ Facebook on TV news as an example of treatment of deceased’s social media. Even if there are “public” timelines, it might not be considered really public ones, but communication with their friends.

• Regards to the former topic, we were talking about marriage and surname system in the US and Japan, working name and stage name as an alias of legal name, how to change our legal name in the real life and some example of name changes.

• Regards to the latter topic, we were talking about deceased’s account treatment on Twitter and Facebook. Once their social media contents There is also an aspect that to keep one’s account alive even after death is archiving.