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…
Category Kantara initiative
Iain Henderson – The Personal Data Eco-System
This post is a short(ish) summary of a working session led by Drummond Reed and me at the recent West Coast VRM Workshop, and also an introduction to the Kantara workgroup in which we are going to move this…
Kantara Initiative Coverage Round Up for Week of June 21, 2009
Coverage continued to focus on the launch of Kantara Initiative, including a well attended journalist roundtable hosted by our Japan Discussion Group in Tokyo. It also includes a reference to a SlideShare version of Wednesday’s webcast overviewing Kantara Initiative–good viewing…
Challenging the accepted truth about iris biometrics
Posted on June 18, 2009 I promised some more notes from the recent LSE workshop I attended on Identity in the Information Society (IDIS), and have finally got around to it. The opening keynote of the workshop was given by…
ID cards scheme "in the long grass"?
Posted June 18, 2009 There’s a nice, succinct article in the FT today (also available online here) reading the runes on the Home Office’s contractual arrangements for parts of the ID Cards scheme. At the heart of the story is…
Kantara Initiative Reshapes Global Identity Landscape Based on Industry-Wide Collaboration, Announces Initial Focus Areas
Representatives from Internet Society and Oracle elected to leadership positions as growing membership base works to bridge identity technologies, initiatives and organizations Washington DC, June 17, 2009 – Nearly 45 organizations from the global identity and Internet communities today…
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…
Thank Goodness My Middle Name Isn't Bin
Posted June 9, 2009 Thanks to the IDIS Journal folks for their Twitter post about new formalities to be introduced by the US Transport Security Administration (TSA). According to this article from the SJ Mercury, the TSA’s watch list is…