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We blog regularly about the future of digital identity and data protection, the fraught state of cybersecurity and privacy, and messes like blockchain, software engineering, and social media.

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...

Please. There is no perfect privacy.

A new effort dubbed Project Enigma “guarantees” us privacy, by way of a certain technology....

Spare us the outrage over Safe Harbor changes

For 35 years now, a body of data protection jurisprudence has been built on top...

Does government have the innovation appetite?

Under new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, innovation for once is the policy du jour in...

An identity glut on the Internet of Things

  A superconducting mag lev train. Picture credit: Wikimedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike...

Biometrics Privacy Trust Mark Development – Stage 2

The Biometrics Institute has received Australian government assistance to fund the next stage of the...

On certain criticism of Frank Gehry

A letter to the editor, Sydney Morning Herald, January 14, 2011. The ABC screened a...