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Author Archive

Disintermediation: an Amazon parable

A spine tingling story with a sequel about reusable identities

A social network or the name police – but not both

According to Bob Blakely, "Google wants to be in the 'social' business. But they’re not behaving sociably."

24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook

Facebook generation's Max Schrems is walloping Facebook with a media-savvy rejection of some fundamental assumptions

Arrogant bullies versus Superheroine

"Give up your identity, Identity Woman!"

Linked In strikes out

We need a professional network that respects the rights of the people in it. Linked In just lost my vote.

Who is harmed by a “Real Names” policy?

Those of us working on identity technology have to internalize the lessons here

Head over to the Office of Inadequate Security

It even has a twitter feed for breach junkies

The Idiot’s Guide to Why Voicemail Hacking is a Crime

Defense lawyers have argued that voicemail has already been transmitted and is therefore no longer "in the course of its transmission."

Robots reshaping social networks

Twitter SocialBots were "increasingly able to carve out their own independent community — as seen in the clustering of targets away from the established tightly-knit networks and towards the bots themselves."

New paper on Wi-Fi positioning systems

In a new paper Ann Cavoukian and I argue that when reusing an existing architecture for unintended purposes, we must beware of unintended consequences

Change of status

I will keep my hand in the identity and social computing space to the extent that people find my input useful.

Google opposing the “Right to be forgotten”

"This is just the beginning, this right to be forgotten, but it's going to be much more important in the future," said Artemi Rallo, director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency.