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The problem of "how does a computer identify an individual" is clearly a different problem to "how does the individual want to be identified?".

Facebook Work accounts. Teachers running Google Classroom. There are plenty of examples where technical solutions that address the first problem (to make it easier for computers) exacerbate the second (which seeks to make things easier for humans). We should prioritise the technological solutions that help us, not machines.



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