Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
Metaphormosis
We can over-stretch our metaphors. Is a passport an “identifier”? Is a drivers licence an...
The IdP is Dead!
“All Hail the Relyingpartyrati!” I presented my ecological theory of identity to the Cloud Identity...
Designing Privacy by Design
I am speaking at next week’s AusCERT security conference, on how to make privacy real...
Big Data? Big Privacy!
I was invited to give a speech to launch Australian Privacy Awareness Week #2013PAW on...
The devil is in the legals
Many of the identerati campaign on Twitter and on the blogosphere for a federated new...
An algebra of identity
In my recent post “Identity is in the eye of the beholder” I tried to...
Utopia
“Here’s your cool new identifier! It’s so easy to use. No passwords to forget, no...
The beginning of privacy!
The headlines proclaim that the newfound ability to re-identify anonymous DNA donors means The End...
Technological imperialism
Abstract Biometrics seems to be going gang busters in the developing world. I fear we’re...
Letter to Science: Re-identification of DNA may need ethics approval
Introduction I had a letter published in Science magazine about the recently publicised re-identification of...