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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.

Once more to the breach!
May 13, 2015

Bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks, answered “That’s where the money...

The government cannot simply opt-out of opt-in
May 11, 2015

The Australian government is to revamp the troubled Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR). In...

The security joke is on us all
May 3, 2015

Every now and then, a large organisation in the media spotlight will experience the special...

Digital Disruption – Melbourne
April 30, 2015

Ray Wang tells us now that writing a book and launching a company are incredibly...

You can de-identify but you can’t hide
April 25, 2015

Acknowledgement: Daniel Barth-Jones kindly engaged with me after this blog was initially published, and pointed...

Identity Management Moves from Who to What
April 18, 2015

The State Of Identity Management in 2015 Constellation Research recently launched the “State of Enterprise...

There’s nothing precise about Precision Medicine
April 16, 2015

The media gets excited about gene therapy. With the sequencing of genomes becoming ever cheaper...

The latest FIDO Alliance research
April 15, 2015

I have just updated my periodic series of research reports on the FIDO Alliance. The...

Correspondence in Nature magazine
March 26, 2015

I had a letter to the editor published in Nature on big data and privacy....

What do privacy’s critics have to hide?
March 24, 2015

Yawn. Alexander Nazaryan in Newsweek (March 22) has penned yet another tirade against privacy. His...