Noted anti-virus vendor Eugene Kaspersky has weighed extravagantly into the larger security problem, arguing that “anonymity causes security headaches and should be outlawed <>” (). So he wants an Internet Passport. This is surely madness. The social repercussions are obvious,…
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…
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…
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…
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Kantara Initiative had a very successful inaugural meeting co-located at the DIDW in Las Vegas.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…