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Is it Personal Information or not ? Embrace the uncertainty.

The Australian parliament recently revised our definition of Personal Information. We have lowered the bar...

How Bart Simpson might defend TouchID

A week and a bit after Apple released the iPhone 5S with its much vaunted...

What’s really happening to privacy?

This article was first published as Wilson, S. (2013). What happened to privacy?”. Issues, 104,...

Attribute wallets

There’s little debate now that attributes are at least as important as “identity” in making...

Metaphormosis

We can over-stretch our metaphors. Is a passport an “identifier”? Is a drivers licence an...

The IdP is Dead!

“All Hail the Relyingpartyrati!” I presented my ecological theory of identity to the Cloud Identity...

Designing Privacy by Design

I am speaking at next week’s AusCERT security conference, on how to make privacy real...

Big Data? Big Privacy!

I was invited to give a speech to launch Australian Privacy Awareness Week #2013PAW on...

The devil is in the legals

Many of the identerati campaign on Twitter and on the blogosphere for a federated new...

An algebra of identity

In my recent post “Identity is in the eye of the beholder” I tried to...