Yahoo has started a program where users may request to have existing account and email names transferred to them. If a requested account has not been in use for an extended period of time, Yahoo will transfer this account to…
Category: Privacy
Anil talks about LoA for attributes in response to some of the discussion at the recent IDTrust at NIST. This discussion came up a couple of times before, and I seem to recall talking about this: In the bigger picture…
So it seems that Facebook is trying to force Timeline on everybody. With all due respect, but this is plain stupid. I do not want to have a timeline, ever. I will try to stop this, but if they go…
When reading Henk’s thoughts on DLP, I have to concur that DLP must go beyond simple dirty word filtering and similar technical attempts. DLP properly done must include a comprehensive scheme to protect proprietary information that should likely include a…
Our effort to improve electronic health data exchange is starting to pick up some steam: After a very successful rounds of discussions at the HL7 General Plenary in Atlanta in late September (kudos to Andy Gregorowicz for covering this one)…
I liked Bob Blakey’s recent article on privacy, along with the paper he and Ian Glazer published. One direction that might need some additional coverage at some time is the “privacy of organizations”. Organizational sensitive data (such as trade secrets…
In an earlier article I talked about data ownership – or lack thereof – at a low, technical level. There are three principal technical actors: the physical custodian, the logical custodian, and the data originator. This article deals with the…
User-centricity – often expressed in the “7 Laws of Identity” – has been a common theme in identity management for a while now. At the heart of these principles lies the desire to empower the end-users of a computer systems…
Data ownership is a rather nasty topic: at a legal level, we have many rights related to data we create or that is about us: privacy regulations, intellectual property rights, copyrights and trademarks, etc. are all aspects of how society…
I have talked many times before about the privacy concerns that I have about Europe’s and Germany’s approach to protecting privacy: on the one side citizens have – at least theoretically – a very strong position viz-a-viz non-governmental actors when…