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Please join the US, Canada (yeah, it's not just a blue state), and 27 European countries in celebrating second annual Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2009. Designed to raise awareness and generate discussion about data privacy practices and rights, Data Privacy Day activities in the United States have included privacy professionals, corporations, government officials, and representatives, academics, and students across the country. One of the primary goals of Data Privacy Day is to promote privacy Read More...
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I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, I’ll use this to help orient conversations around why there needs to be a simple, [...] Read More...
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Amazingly enough, it took less than 24 hours to see the first massive privacy issues flaring up with Google Chrome. In a CNET interview, Peter Eckersley of the EFF says: "We're worried that Chrome will be another giant conveyer belt moving private information about our use of the Web into Google's data vaults," Eckersley said. "Google already knows far too much about what everybody is thinking at any given moment. Now this is a total surprise, is it not? Not only can Google read all your mail, knows Read More...
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No, I am not talking about Google Chrome (yet). But it is related: if you look at it seems that Germany has already conquered Denmark, Benelux, Switzerland, and Austria-Hungary. It could also be a the EUSSR with its capital in Brussels... Or maybe this is a completely new country call "Googleland", where every citizen deposits all their data in a save datacenter, identified by a unique id. "Information Self-Determination" is a basic human right, and any data merchant will get shot on sight. The only Read More...
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Reading through the proposed topics for IIW2008a I noticed that George Fletcher blogged about something that I want too. Though calling it Identity Metasystem Markup Language seems a little too big, I think. Anyway I posted something similar to the osis-general mailing list on May 2nd . Using <link rel="metadata" ...> to indicate what the RP wants is a good idea, I think. This is very simple and very much simpler than embedded objects. What I like most about this idea is that we might get rid Read More...
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An interesting story coming out of White Plans, NY talks of a woman who's apartment was burglarized with close to $5,000 of electronics stolen including a couple of Apple laptops and how she was able to help catch the culprits as well as get her stuff back. The thief apparently was using the computer and one of the victim's friends (who knew her laptop was stolen) noticed a few days later that she was logged in (presumably on some instant messenger) and called her. The woman was able to use Apple's Read More...
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This is such a smart move of Microsoft! I am impressed and I am sure that Credentica's technology will lead to a privacy improved version of CardSpace. I hope that Microsoft will provide open access to this technology for others to implement identity selectors, relying parties and security token servers. CardSpace is token agnostic but when I have read the U-Prove papers correctly then there is more then one roundtrip between id selector and STS required to deliver all the nice features. The protocol Read More...
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The news just become official that Microsoft has acquired Stefan Brand’s Credentica and all its intellectual property. This pairs up Stefan with Microsoft’s Identity and Access team to bring Credentica’s groundbreaking U-Prove zero-knowledge-proof technology to market.
This is a very exciting development, particularly because it means that between Microsoft’s work on CardSpace and Higgins work on [...] Read More...
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This sound interesting. "Identitycamp Bremen will be the first Barcamp in Germany that focuses on identity 2.0, single-sign-on, reputation management, relationship management, privacy 2.0 and related issues." Read More...
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… is much more difficult than learning and doing things right in the first place. One of my aspirations for 2008 is to promote the unlearning of bad habits in the area of digital identity.
The missing identity layer of the internet has led people to a digital behaviour completely different from the physical world. Even [...] Read More...
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Identity Woman (Kaliya Hamlin) posts about why current “friend formats” like FOAF and XFN don’t satisfy the need for privacy and personal control of data that she – and many other women – want before they are comfortable sharing personal information online.
She mentions that XRI and XDI provide this capability. Chris Messina comments that: As it [...] Read More...
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Denise Caruso published a wonderful article in Sunday’s New York Times on a subject very close to my heart: how to best go about protecting personal identity, profile, and preference data as new technologies like OpenID, Higgins, and XDI make it possible for individuals to aggregate and share this information much more easily. Call it [...] Read More...
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Last week I mentioned the Social Web User’s Bill of Rights that was drafted for the Data Sharing Summit last Friday and Saturday. When it was first posted, it included the phrase, “ownership”, as in “user’s should own their personal data”.
Mary Hodder, the entrepreneur behind Dabble.com, Paul Trevithick, and I were initially wary [...] Read More...
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Certain events scream out for live blogging. The Data Sharing Summit is one of them. So these are my notes from first half of Day 1. (Then why are they being posted at midnight, you ask? Because there was too damn much to talk about during the second half of the day. More on that [...] Read More...
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On my last trip, I picked up a book at one of the airport bookstores. The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks . It's a good story about the struggle between good and evil and I recommend reading it. The reason I bring it up here is because it paints a pretty strong fictional picture of what could be done by the wrong hands in our ever-more-connected world. They called it "The Vast Machine" and fictionalized how the bad guys were able to tie together information from every kind of source to create a super Read More...
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