# Ambiguity in defining digital identity hinders cohesive industry & policy action

Source: https://newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2025/digital-identity-event-horizon-finding-1
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ambiguity-in-defining-digital-identity-hinders-cohesive-industry-and-policy-action?index=0x68797a6c0055d4c1e32e0a77c1aba3eece4df28dd62796ce756953a841ffdcd5cd25f1de
Submitted by misha on 2025-07-17 UTC, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

The article argues that the lack of a reliable, universal definition of digital identity hinders coherent industry and policy action. It says the widely cited ISO/IEC 24760-1:2019 definition, "an identity is a set of attributes related to an entity," is so broad it lets vendors and governments claim compliance while ignoring substance. It also cites conflicting definitions from the Tony Blair Institute, Thales Group, Rodney H. Jones, Benjamin Bratton, and Christoph A. Hafner, and says the European Commission's "Web 4.0" programme adopted a metaverse-based concept.