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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…

Is 118800 a red herring?

You know what? I’m actually starting to feel twinges of sympathy for the folks at Connectivity. There are two pieces in the Guardian devoted to the suspension of their mobile directory enquiries services, one from yesterday and one from today.…

Home Office dismisses ID Card hack

Those of you with any interest in cricket will know that today is the first day of the 4th Test Match between Australia and England for the Ashes. With the series standing at 1-0 to England (2 matches having ended…