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.…
Over the weekend, prompted by a message from @wendyg, I had another go at checking whether my details are on 118800, the UK online directory of mobile phone numbers which has excited so much comment over the past few months.…
I blogged back in February about Chris Paget’s successful attempts to read US-issued RFID credentials while simply driving past their owners… so I was a little surprised to see the same “news” cropping up in this article from Saturday’s LA…
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…
This post is a short(ish) summary of a working session led by Drummond Reed and me at the recent West Coast VRM Workshop, and also an introduction to the Kantara workgroup in which we are going to move this…
Posted on June 18, 2009 I promised some more notes from the recent LSE workshop I attended on Identity in the Information Society (IDIS), and have finally got around to it. The opening keynote of the workshop was given by…
Posted June 18, 2009 There’s a nice, succinct article in the FT today (also available online here) reading the runes on the Home Office’s contractual arrangements for parts of the ID Cards scheme. At the heart of the story is…
Representatives from Internet Society and Oracle elected to leadership positions as growing membership base works to bridge identity technologies, initiatives and organizations  Washington DC, June 17, 2009 – Nearly 45 organizations from the global identity and Internet communities today…
Posted June 16, 2009 Dear Home Secretary, Welcome to your new post. I hope your advisers have put in your in-tray a copy of the very lucid analysis of the UK’s National Identity Scheme which Toby Stevens has written here…
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…
