Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
My analysis of the FIDO Alliance
I’ve written a new Constellation Research “Quark” Report on the FIDO Alliance (“Fast Identity Online”),...
Are we ready to properly debate surveillance and privacy?
The cover of Newsweek magazine on 27 July 1970 featured an innocent couple being menaced...
Measuring anonymity
As we head towards 2014, de-identification of personal data sets is going to be a...
WEBINAR
The Consumerization of Identity: A collision of Worlds US: Nov 13 1:00-1:30PM Pacific Aus: Nov...
Opinion: Why NFC trumps biometrics.
This is a copy of an op-ed I wrote in IT News on 20 September....
A serious advance in mobile device authentication
IBM Zurich researcher Diego Ortiz-Yepes recently revealed a new Two Factor Authentication technique in which...
Is it Personal Information or not ? Embrace the uncertainty.
The Australian parliament recently revised our definition of Personal Information. We have lowered the bar...
Sep
How Bart Simpson might defend TouchID
A week and a bit after Apple released the iPhone 5S with its much vaunted...
What’s really happening to privacy?
This article was first published as Wilson, S. (2013). What happened to privacy?”. Issues, 104,...
Attribute wallets
There’s little debate now that attributes are at least as important as “identity” in making...