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• Boys scrap over Facebook

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:41 am

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, User Centric, Digital Identity, Platforms

  Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs and Master of New Media, took the lid off a noisy can of worms this week when he declared Facebook Bankruptcy, exhausted by his facebook chores of responding to endless invitations, requests and guilt trips. In sum, he says, “Folks have just opted in to another out of control inbox…. I’m

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• Time: no one knows you’re a CEO

  Published: July 28, 2007, 9:24 am

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Digital Identity, Digital Rights, Anonymity

  has argued that this kind of identity-play even has therapeutic value. You certainly can’t ascribe a plausible financial motive to Mackey–rahodeb’s postings weren’t moving stock prices around. This was about just being naughty: picture Mackey chortling as he played the regular rube, like Marie Antoinette dressing up as a

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• Paper argues biometric templates can be “reversed”

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:29 pm

  Tags: Digital Identity, Privacy, Digital Rights, Minimal Disclosure, Biometrics

  and ones (as if, in the digital world, there is much more than that…) Now a Canadian researcher has shown that in the case of face recognition templates a fairly high quality image of a person can be automatically regenerated from templates. The images calculated using the procedure are of sufficient quality to give a good

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• Guess what? Rabodeb is not his “real” name

  Published: July 26, 2007, 7:51 pm

  Tags: Digital Identity, Digital Rights, Believe It Or Not, Spoofing, Claims

  A rivetting “natural” story of pseudonymity has risen to prime time in America’s financial press - partly because government prosecutors have entered the fray. We’re not talking here about a teenager, novelist, or garret inhabitant. This involves a corporate executive - John P. Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, who

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• DigitalMe for Mac passed the Interoperathon

  Published: July 8, 2007, 9:27 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Information Cards, Higgins, Digitalme

  to the emerging identity metasystem is exceptional - we’re talking about the DigitalMe Identity Selector for Mac and Linux , as well as relying party components. I will post a download link as soon as one becomes available. Novell’s Dale Olds wrote about the Catalyst Conference and OSIS Interopathon here :

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• Ensuring Privacy and Consent

  Published: July 6, 2007, 12:16 am

  Tags: Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Federation, Privacy, Strong Authentication

  Mont’s Research on Identity Management blog. He discusses business-driven identity management - and its foibles. A recent post invites us to an upcoming Kable conference that I would attend if I possibly could: An interesting conference is going to take place on July, 9th in London, UK on Ensuring Privacy and Consent in Identity

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• Beyond maximal disclosure tokens

  Published: June 26, 2007, 4:11 am

  Tags: Digital Identity, Federation, Privacy, Digital Rights, Liberty, Linkage

  protocol described here, the identity provider knows which relying party a user is visiting. The Liberty Alliance has been forward-thinking enough to use this knowledge to avoid leaking omnidirectional handles to relying parties, through what it calls pseudonynms. For example, “persistent” and “transient” pseudonyms

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• Report on EEMA e-Identity Conference in Paris

  Published: June 25, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Digital Identity, Privacy, Digital Rights

  has a new blog called IdentitySpace that brings us a comprehensive piece on the EEMA e-Identity conference held recently in Paris. Reading it will give you a feeling for some of the conversations that are going on around identity in Europe. I’ll quote randomly to pique your interest: “Olivier Delos of SEALED gave a good

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• Burton Group reports on user-centric interop

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Information Cards, Code

  said that there is a running identity

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• Dynamite interview with Latanya Sweeney

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Digital Identity, Privacy, Biometrics

  Scientific American has published a must-read-in-its-entirety interview with Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Latanya Sweeney. She begins by showing that privacy is not a political issue, but an animal need: “We literally can’t live in a society without it. Even in nature animals have to have some kind of secrecy to operate. For

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• Digital gifts for my digital birthday

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Digital Identity, Privacy, Digital Rights, Anonymity

  When I do a telephone transfer at my bank, they ask me to prove I’m legitimate by giving them a few pieces of information - including my birth date. I also know that by combining birth date, surname and zip code, marketers can uniquely identify almost the whole population. To my way of thinking, this puts it in the same class as

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• Grab them eyeballs! Any cred at all!

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: User Centric, Digital Identity, Federation, Digital Rights

  common-sense economics of identity, then asks why “there seem to be more OpenID providers than there are consumers”, concluding: Why would Facebook implement a feature that reduced their user growth via network effects? Why would MySpace make it easy for sites to extract user profile information from their service? Because

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• Emperor of the Amateurs

  Published: September 2, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Digital Identity, Blog, Anonymity

  If you are looking for a real hoot, and have nothing enjoyable or worthwhile to do, consider spending an hour (no more) with Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur. Whatever you do, don't buy it you're sure to find discarded copies lying around. Mine, for example.

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• We need a spectrum

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:58 am

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Digital Rights, Openid

  Stefan Brands runs off in the wrong direction in his recent treatise on OpenID. Who really needs a shock and awe attempt to bonk the new OpenID “cryptographic primitives” back into the stone age? It’s not that you shouldn’t read the piece; even though subtlety is not its strong suit, it brings together a lot of

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• Managed information cards for secure online purchasing

  Published: September 11, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Digital Identity, Information Cards, Secure Payment

  demonstration from Ping Identity and ACI Worldwide at the upcoming DIDW Conference (just two weeks away in San Francisco in case you have forgotten to register). To put this in context, ACI Worldwide is the world leader in retail payments - over half the plastic card transactions in the world (55 billion last year) go through ACI’s

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