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Call for Nominations for the 2009 IDDY Awards Now Open

Kantara Initiative expands the Liberty Alliance Identity Deployment of the Year Award program, announces new categories and judging criteria June 30, 2009 – Kantara Initiative, the global identity community working to solve harmonization and interoperability challenges among identity-enabled enterprise, Web…

UK policy and cyber-warfare

A few years ago I was given a very good piece of advice about technologists expressing a view on matters of policy: don’t. “Think of three layers”, was the suggestion of my older and wiser colleague: “a bottom layer of…

An Open Letter

Posted June 16, 2009 Dear Home Secretary, Welcome to your new post. I hope your advisers have put in your in-tray a copy of the very lucid analysis of the UK’s National Identity Scheme which Toby Stevens has written here…

The Privacy Experiment

Posted on June 15, 2009 One of the points I was happy to have been able to make at last Tuesday’s beingdigital event was this: privacy is not about keeping all my data to myself, it’s about disclosing it, but…

beingdigital 2009 event

Posted on June 10, 2009 Challenged to sum up “digital footprints, personas and privacy” in 30 seconds at the end of yesterday’s panel, I rather lamely blathered on about ‘governance’, and rounded off with the example of CCTV cameras. Why…