Kantara Initiative announces revision 5 of the User-Managed Access (UMA) protocol and a free public webinar on October 17 about UMA’s benefits for higher education data sharing. PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA – October 11, 2012 – Valuable personal data about us resides in dozens of different web locations, and we frequently […]
Identity
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Trust and usability are prerequisites for the development of commercial, administrative, social media and other e-services. To enable trust and usability today, secure and easy-to-use e-identification is in the users, service providers and the public interest. Identity federation is a solution that is now beginning to spread and gain in […]
Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative: Authorization Standards Workshop at Burton Catalyst San Diego, July 27, 12:30-2:30pm Merger of Kantara’s IdP Selection WG into ULX WG Kantara Initiative Meeting, Oct. 19-21, Paris, France hosted by Orange-FT Kantara Initiative announces the formation of the Federation Interoperability Work […]
Written by Mike Kirkwood. Read the full article. This week we are reporting from RSA, the security conference in San Francisco. We’ve seen hackers, threats, and industry leaders roaming these halls – and among these we found leaders of the identity community, people who are thought leaders focused on creating […]
On behalf of Frank Villavicencio, chair of the Identity Assurance WG. Also published at Frank Villavicencio’s blog page. First off, I would like to would like to express my sympathy to those affected by the terrible earthquake that hit Chile this past weekend. Envio mi palabra de aliento y de […]
In Jose Manuel Barroso’s recent reshuffle of the European Commission, there were a couple of moves which bear some further inspection, from a privacy/identity perspective. The former Commissioner for Information Society, Viviane Reding, is promoted to one of the Vice Presidents of the Commission, and given a new portfolio as […]
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 Kantara Initiative supports and looks forward to continue our engagement […]
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 BBC, on the opening day of the Labour Party Conference: […]
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 among identity-enabled enterprise, Web 2.0 and Cloud applications and services, […]
The Kantara Initiative yesterday announced the formation of the Identity Assurance Review Board (ARB). This is a tangible example of the Kantara Initiative delivering on the non-technology related, identity meta-issues that I alluded to in my last Kantara Initiative blog. I think in a few years we will look […]