Thanks Micha, and yes, I wholly agree that SSI proves useful in the context of IAM. The challenge for the information technology profession is recognizing that while any micro process can be made more efficient with SSI and associated protocols, the macro consequences are malignant.

At what point does the profession stand up and say that pursuing incremental advantage is unethical on this basis? At what point does the IT professional point out that it cannot be acceptable to make specific quotidian processes more efficient if it looks even possible let alone likely that this will be to the detriment of our psychological, sociological, and ecological health?

It is I think incumbent on the IT profession to draft in other disciplines and collaborate with the other coders in society (the legal profession) to help develop the understanding here and the corresponding legal code required to head off the emergent consequences of their own malignant code.