Category Archives: Language

Comparing Three Party and Four Party data verification models

Infostructure patterns One of the hottest topics in the digital economy has for some time...

Hello, I’m a zombie. What brings you here today?

Some people think we’re ready to get psychological counselling from AIs. But in a tragedy...

What do verifiable credentials verify?

Verifiable credentials are one of the most important elements of digital identity today. What exactly...

Talking Digital ID with NAB

I was delighted to appear on the latest NAB Digital Next podcast in conversation with...

Digital ID and “digital identity”

Terminology Digital Identity: An amorphous concept attempting the impossible job of capturing all that a...

Video: Zero Identity (Identiverse 2023)

I closed my Identiverse 2022 speech with a discomfiting call to action: “If zero trust...

Identerati: disrupt yourselves!

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

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....

How the language and metaphors of identity mislead us

It’s a grave problem that we identity pros can be speaking at cross purposes. The...

Getting warm on Attributes

Updated with a link, August 30, 2022. On one of the identity industry mail lists...