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“Here’s your cool new identifier! It’s so easy to use. No passwords to forget, no...

The beginning of privacy!

The headlines proclaim that the newfound ability to re-identify anonymous DNA donors means The End...

Technological imperialism

Abstract Biometrics seems to be going gang busters in the developing world. I fear we’re...

Letter to Science: Re-identification of DNA may need ethics approval

Introduction I had a letter published in Science magazine about the recently publicised re-identification of...

An Authentication Claims Exchange Bus

Last week I had the very great pleasure of participating in the first MIT Legal...

Identity is in the eye of the beholder

That is to say, identity is in the eye of the Relying Party. The word...

Let’s talk about privacy, in engineering terms

I have come to believe that a systemic conceptual shortfall affects typical technologists’ thinking about...

Classic Facebook stalking horse

Dec 19, 2012 Yesterday Instagram made its first move towards delivering the real value in...

Don’t mix business and pleasure

At the recent Gartner Identity & Access Summit, analyst Earl Perkins spoke of the potential...

Any ideas to curtail CNP fraud?

The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...