Agency

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. Of course, this is utter nonsense. The people who are promoting these changes are software developers who want to create code that will be the #useragent. 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. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/business/sec-binance-charges.html

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 White sovereignty that allowed an unbridled minority to do what they The federal an acrid wif White freedom and African-American agency"