Difference between revisions of "Agency"

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Context

User agency is a term used with digital identifiers and wallets to designate that the user will have agency when #verifiablecredentials and EU #wallets become ubiquitous. As to be expected, this does not work in practice. The people who are promoting these changes are software developers who want to create code that will be the User Agent. We can use the experience with digital #blockchain to see exactly what the #userexerience will be. Lots of people like Sam Bankman-fried create agents which reuse your cash (or your identity) for their own purposes. How can the user be considered to have agency when the software developers are working as hard as they can to avoid regulations? Biance was just sued for the very same thing.

Problems

When Agency appears in opposition to power, power always wins.

• The U. S. Courts acquiescence to a "Contract of Adhesion" allows corporations to over-ride any attempt by individuals to assert their won agency over their own data. No amount of technological wizardry can overcome the force of law.
• When the US southern whites were faces with the reality of the colored vote,

As a result of the massacre of colored voters in Eufala Alabama in 1874, the Fed concluded "The colored people of the country An injustice drifts across the centuries and clouds our perception

no power exists an 

Two version of were at stake in 1874 one was that required strong Federal intervention to protect. In contradistinction, the second was a form of White sovereignty that allowed an unbridled minority to do what they wanted. At stake was sorting more troubling that a simple defense of White supremacy. tested and confirmed in the violence of 1874 The federal an acrid wif White freedom and African-American agency"^[1]

References

1. ↑ Jefferson Cowie, Freedom's Dominion Basic Books, (2022-11-22) ISBN 978-1541672802