Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
The last thing privacy needs is new laws
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has given a speech in London, re-affirming the...
The Privacy Shield – another blunt weapon
For many years, American businesses have enjoyed a bit of special treatment under European data...
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Finding friends gets a little harder
The highest court in Germany has ruled that Facebook’s “Find Friends” function is unlawful there....
Weak links in the Blockchain
One of the silliest things I’ve read yet about blockchain came out in Business Insider...
A brush with fame (not)
Wired thinks it has unmasked Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto as an Australian security personality Craig...
The Economist’s take on blockchain
An unpublished letter to the editor of The Economist. November 1, 2015 Just as generalists...
Satya Nadella at the security poker table
This morning Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella gave a global speech about enterprise security. He announced...
My opening remarks on privacy at Constellation Connected Enterprise 2015
A big part of my research agenda in the Digital Safety theme at Constellation is...
Who buys Bitcoin for Identity?
You’ll have to forgive the deliberate inaccuracy in the title, but I just couldn’t resist...
Getting warm on Attributes
Updated with a link, August 30, 2022. On one of the identity industry mail lists...