Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
Trade PII not privacy
There is an orthodoxy that privacy is willingly traded by people in return for some...
Strippers are better off than Facebook users
Journalist Farhad Manjoo at Slate recently lampooned the privacy interests of Facebook users, quipping sarcastically...
Technocrats’ happy snaps
Once again, technologists confuse being in public with giving up one’s right to privacy. Today’s...
If Facebook were a government, there’d be riots
A repeated refrain of Facebook’s apologists is that privacy is dead. People are supposed to...
The identerati fiddle while Rome burns
I love a bit of philosophy as much as the next engineer does, and I...
Biometrics and false advertising
Use of the word “unique” in biometrics constitutes false advertising. There is little scientific basis...
Despite the IdM hype, privacy and security remain uneasy bedfellows
The information security sub-specialisation of Digital Identity has spurred prodigious activity in the past decade,...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
Imagine a new secretarial agency that provides you with a Personal Assistant. They’re a really...
Fighting cyber crime like it really matters
It is no exaggeration to characterise the theft of personal information as an epidemic. Personal...
CNP fraud keeps growing without limit
The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...