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 […]
User-Managed Access (UMA) lets web application creators easily craft systems that give control of data back to the people. Any web-based data ecosystem can leverage UMA, including eHealth and eGov portals, social networking sites, photo sharing portals, and personal data stores. It offers individuals centralized security, privacy, and control for […]
Kantara Initiative has announced the release of a Draft Recommendation for the User-Managed Access (UMA) protocol. UMA heralds a new era of user-centric access control for web-based applications such as social networking sites, content-sharing portals, and personal clouds. PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA – July 7, 2011 – As we spend more […]
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 […]
Abbie Barbir (http://www.oasis-open.org/about/distinguished-contributors.php) has just been elected by his peers to Chair the Kantara Initiative Privacy and Public Policy Work Group (http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/p3wg/Home). According to Abbie, the Kantara Privacy and Public Policy WG (P3WG) plays an important role in identifying the steps that are needed in the community to help ensure […]
Noted anti-virus vendor Eugene Kaspersky has weighed extravagantly into the larger security problem, arguing that “anonymity causes security headaches and should be outlawed <http://blogs.computerworld.com/14940/eugene_kaspersky_wants_no_net_anonymity>” (http://blogs.computerworld.com/14940/eugene_kaspersky_wants_no_net_anonymity). So he wants an Internet Passport. This is surely madness. The social repercussions are obvious, while it’s not at all clear what problem it might […]
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 the European Commission is heading towards a similar argument about […]
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: […]
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 generated more discussion than anything else on the mailing list. […]
Apologies for the rather opaque title of this post. In its expanded form, it would read something like this: “IP addresses: are they personally identifiable information within the meaning of the law, or not?”… but that would be a bit long. The question is prompted by the latest legal ruling […]