Author Archives: Stephen Wilson

A critique of Privacy by Design

Or Reorientating how engineers think about privacy. From my chapter Blending the practices of Privacy...

Blockchain, Healthcare and the Bleeding Edge of R&D

Last month, over September 26-27, I attended a US government workshop on The Use of...

Bitcoin’s fragile power: It’s meaningless

What do land titles, marriage certificates, diamonds, ballots, aircraft parts and medical records have in...

Order emerging from the Blockchain storm

I’ve been a critic of Blockchain. Frankly I’ve never seen such a massed rush of...

It takes a Virtual Village

In “We are hopelessly hooked” (New York Review of Books, February 25), political historian Jacob...

Mobility and the experience of identity

We all know that digital transformation is imminent, but getting there is far from easy....

Personal Information: What’s it all ‘about’?

For the past few years, a crucial case has been playing out in Australia’s legal...

Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong

Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong. No new technology since the Internet...

Uniquely difficult

I was talking with government identity strategists earlier this week. We were circling (yet again)...

Card Not Present Fraud up another 25% YOY

The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...