EU to legislate on cookies
UK readers will probably remember one of those legal wrangles which make for such easy satire – the protracted argument over whether a Jaffa Cake is a cake or a biscuit (for VAT purposes, of course…) It looks as though…
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Kantara will align methods to securely login
Please Note: This article was originally written in Dutch and appears on the site Automatisering Gids (English: “Automation Guides”). The article has been translated by Google Translate here: The direct link to the original article is here: October…
ANSI Identity Verification Standards a good fit with Identity Assurance Framework
Yesterday The Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP) released a workshop report calling for the development of an American National Standard on identity verification as a tool to help combat terrorism and identity theft. This is work…
10-2009 October Newsletter
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Kantara Initiative had a very successful inaugural meeting co-located at the DIDW in Las Vegas.
This one's for the Prof…
I recently attended a very engaging lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Prof David Lyon – who spoke about “Identity as Surveillance – Security, Surveillance and Citizenship”. I do hope he subsequently saw this article from the…
Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens Pass Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing
Liberty Interoperable program grows as enterprises and governments deploy SAML 2.0 to deliver secure business services, protect identity data, meet regulatory and transparency goals Sept. 30, 2009 – Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance today announced that identity products from Entrust,…
Michigan Healthcare Information Exchange Adopts Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Framework
Regional program leverages four levels of identity assurance and certified identity services from Kantara Initiative to advance trusted, secure and privacy-respecting applications for healthcare providers and patients Washington DC, September 24, 2009 – Kantara Initiative, a global identity community working…
Kantara Initiative Announces Winners of the 2009 IDDY Award
Applications in the global identity, eCommerce, eGovernment, social networking and telecom sectors win Identity Deployment of the Year Awards Las Vegas, NV – September 15, 2009 — Kantara Initiative, a global identity community working to solve harmonization and interoperability challenges…
P3WG and Levels of Assurance
As you may know, I’ve recently set up the Privacy and Public Policy Work Group (P3WG) for the Kantara Initiative, and as we start mapping out the areas in which the Group wants to exercise an influence, one topic has…
Proving that ID Cards can't be cracked
Thanks to @cheshire_puss for the pointer to this ZDNet article about Home Office plans to “engage with the industry to show that we have a ‘gold standard’ card which cannot be changed, modified or cloned”. On one level, I’m delighted…