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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.

‘Owning’ your own data is just a metaphor

The rhetoric of Web3 is full of claims that it’s all about, in part, the...

If data is a resource, then let’s talk about data assays

This blog is another companion to my on-demand speech at FIDO #Authenticate2022, happening this week...

FIDO and the importance of data signing

This blog is a companion to my on-demand speech at FIDO Authenticate 2022 happening this...

CIAO baby!

For as long as I can remember, data security has been framed around the acronym...

Identerati: disrupt yourselves!

I closed my Identiverse 2022 keynote speech with an observation and a plea: “If zero...

Make data better: on the Optus breach

Data is not actually the problem with the Optus breach; it’s the quality of the...

Video: Trust in the post-identity world (Identiverse closing keynote)

I gave a mainstage keynote speech on the closing day of the Identiverse 2022 conference....

Video: What will we learn from the market failure of digital identity?

This is the first of my two presentations at the Identiverse 2022 conference held in Denver,...

Blockchain’s energy consumption is literally about power

Why is blockchain the way it is? Why should any storage system — no matter...

Why plastic cards are a model for verifiable credentials as a service

Or Everything that’s Old is New again. In the next few years, the soaring demand...