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…
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…
Posted June 7, 2009 It’s not unusual to hear criticism of UK law enforcement policy on the taking/retention of DNA samples; the National DNA Database (NDNAD or “nidnad”, as I suppose it should be pronounced) has generated controversy and even…
Last month Brett McDowell, executive director of Liberty Alliance, spent some time with Zack Martin of Avisian discussing the history, preliminary goals and early members of Kantara Initiative. The ten minute podcast offers a great overview of the new organization…
Posted May 29, 2009 A man, who is a shareholder of a company, attends the company’s AGM and asks a question from the floor, about the company’s recent acquisition of another firm – one which organises trade fairs for the…
Posted May 21, 2009 OK, it’s a trick question. The answer, as with much data and all personal data, is “it’s contextual”… which is basically a fancy way of saying “it depends”. This CNet News article from yesterday throws up…
Project Concordia, a Kantara Initiative co-founder, recently responded to a need of one of its members and issued a simple survey to learn more about the community’s use of identity federation. 112 respondents viewed the survey (which weeded-out organizations who…
Kantara Initiative has become a sponsor of this month’s IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) taking place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. We join Information Card Foundation, Google, Microsoft, OASIS ID Trust, OpenID Foundation, OUNO, Plaxo and Yahoo…