Blog

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.

Putting verifiable credentials in the right hands

The development and evolution of a verifiable credential (VC) ecosystem depends on data issuers and...

NAB digital identity roundtable takes fresh steps forward

One of Australia’s Big Four banks, NAB, recently convened a roundtable intended to uncover insights...

FIDO leads the way for a verifiable IoT

The FIDO Alliance has helped to embed a standard cryptographic stack that extends from the...

Handout: How a data protection infostructure can safeguard value chains

Data-sharing is now a social and economic imperative, yet the risks have become obvious. Part...

Putting government data to full use — and why

Government is the source — and should be the provider — of unambiguous, verifiable facts...

Digital wallets are components, not systems

Two particular veins of discussion enliven those of us working on identification and data quality....

What if we could make data useless to thieves?

In The Mandarin, Julian Bajkowski writes that “the digital identity penny appears to have finally...

What’s unique about NFTs?

NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are one of the hottest applications for blockchain at the moment. The...

FIDO and ambient cryptography

Cryptography is one of the most important technologies for any consumer in the 21st century,...

Handout: Trust in the 
post-identity world

The digital discourse is dominated by identity. Is a paradigm shift coming? What if we move...