There are three main types of delegation:

• 1.Person-to-person delegation.

• The primary example of this is a parent's relationship with their children or adult children's custody of their elder parents. Another case is an individual delegating a particular portion of their affairs to another, for example, delegating interacting with the tax authority to a professional accountant. In a will, one can establish who becomes the executor of one's estate after one dies. There is also the new phenomena of intimate surveillance by household members.

• 2. Person-to-entity delegation. An individual delegates something to a corporate entity (legal person). For example, an individual wanting to aggregate all their financial information. They pull it together using a service like Mint.com that logs into all their bank accounts, pulls the information, and centralizes it.

• 3. Entity-to-person delegation. Corporations delegate the responsibility to act on their behalf to particular natural persons.

It should be noted that there are special cases of delegation where the government is given responsibility for people that are not covered in this book: (4) where parental responsibilities are taken from children's parents and held by the government, for example, when children enter foster care, and (5) after a person dies without a will and/or without an executor, the government fills this role.

Relationship to Other Domains

You and my identity is where activity related to individuals who cannot or choose not to act on their own behalf interact with identity and data systems. It was important to distinguish this from the me and my identity domain because not everyone acts on their own behalf in transactions. These two domains together are the source of the interactions with the next 12 domains covering the contexts of governments, commercial entities, civil society entities, and employment.

Who Is a Natural Person?

Before leaping into the details of the description of delegated identity between people, it is worth noting that only natural persons are given the right to delegate their identities in many contexts; thus, natural personhood is a prerequisite to delegation.