Re: What's identity?
Agreed: A name is just an attribute of a persona that is tied to an entity (in this case a person).
The identity of that entity is unique, unchanging (I am always me) and should be 100% anonymous and under my sole control.
Unfortunately once governments get involved (not just the UK) they want to build a silo of "identities" that is under their control - a solution that will only fail.
See the work on the Jericho Forum and their "Identity Commandments" or more latterly the work of the Global Identity Foundation.
http://www.globalidentityfoundation.org &
https://collaboration.opengroup.org/jericho/Jericho%20Forum%20Identity%20Commandments%20v1.0.pdf
