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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.
Security Isn’t Secure
That is, information security is not intellectually secure. Almost every precept of orthodox information security...
The Snapchat data breach
Yesterday it was reported by The Verge that anonymous hackers have accessed Snapchat’s user database...
The ROI for breaching Target
An unhappy holiday for Target customers A week before Christmas, Target in the US revealed...
Facebook’s challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle
Dec 25, 2013 Facebook’s challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle An extract from our chapter...
My analysis of the FIDO Alliance
I’ve written a new Constellation Research “Quark” Report on the FIDO Alliance (“Fast Identity Online”),...
Are we ready to properly debate surveillance and privacy?
The cover of Newsweek magazine on 27 July 1970 featured an innocent couple being menaced...
Measuring anonymity
As we head towards 2014, de-identification of personal data sets is going to be a...
WEBINAR
The Consumerization of Identity: A collision of Worlds US: Nov 13 1:00-1:30PM Pacific Aus: Nov...
Opinion: Why NFC trumps biometrics.
This is a copy of an op-ed I wrote in IT News on 20 September....
A serious advance in mobile device authentication
IBM Zurich researcher Diego Ortiz-Yepes recently revealed a new Two Factor Authentication technique in which...