IDtrail’s Jane Bailey and Ian Kerr join their colleague Jennifer Chandler on a panel tomorrow in Toronto at the Canadian Association for Law and Society’s 2006 conference: The City: A Festival of Knowledge.  Together, they will contemplate three challenges to citizens’ privacy, identity and security raised by three different ‘instruments of choice’, each adopted voluntarily in our technological society as a perceived means of social empowerment. Jane will focus on webcamming. Ian will talk about glogging.  Jennifer will talk about contracting. While the social justification for each of these practices usually rests in their free and informed adoption by individuals, little thought has thus far been given to the consequences that each of these practices might have on the collective and on the long-run potential to undermine rather than promote self- or group-empowerment. The panel will investigate these potential consequences.