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…
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…
Back in late November I Twittered from the Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Malmø (#egov2009), expressing the hope that the press release would contain a bit more substance than the keynote announcement of the Ministerial Declaration. I am delighted to say…
In my previous post on cookies and privacy in the new EU Directive, I mentioned, in passing, the question of user consent. I think it’s time to return to that for a closer look. First, a couple of references to…
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…
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…
Posted on 10th July 2009 At last, there’s an article which thoroughly exposes some of the nonsense which has been talked about ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) ‘requirements’ and biometric passports. It’s by John Lettice, writing in The Register, and…
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…
