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Identity can be considered as a certificate or a license that one must have in order to be included in an organization or to be entitled to certain rights. It usually consists of a set of personal information to distinguish the owner from others. The most common identity in real life is the ID cards for citizens of a country. The purpose of this ID card is to claim that one belongs to a country and is a legal resident; hence, she has certain rights by law. However, the concept of identity dates back to ancient times, long before constitutional law was developed. The starting point of identity was when human first differentiated among themselves and started recognizing “self.” But identity has become more than just a tool to distinguish people.
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Ranj Bar, A., Maheswaran, M. (2014). Online Identities. In: Confidentiality and Integrity in Crowdsourcing Systems. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02717-3_3
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