
80 Cyberpower
• nominative identity (a name that is a piece of information);
• a body part (that loses its corporality in order to become digital infor-
mation);
• electronics (a smart chip);
• computing (computers, networks, databases).
What used to be relatively simple (an identity document containing basic
information) becomes extremely complex because of the modication of the
nature of its information, of the digitization, and of the transformation from a
paper document to an electronic document that requires a robust computing
infrastructure that, for the moment, we do not know how to control – or even
if it can be appropriately protected. ...