European Identity Conference 2010
Less than two months to go until the 4th annual European Identity Conference, and registration is now open! Once again, as last year, I'll be delivering an opening keynote as well as hosting two session tracks.On Tuesday (5/4/10), I'll keynote on "Con...
IIW spring 2010
Time to register for the spring Internet Identity Workshop. Do it now.
Which ox are you goring?
ProjectVRM's Joe Andrieu has a long, but not necessarily rambling, post today buttressing his (and the project's) stand on data sharing.He makes some great points, such as that many people confuse privacy with secrecy. And that transactional data is ow...
Google, OpenID and Chris Messina
Today's announcement that Chris Messina is joining Google is certainly good for Chris, probably good for Google - but what about the openID Foundation?As of today, Google has 3 members of the Board of Directors, their corporate rep (Eric Sachs), and "c...
Burtner or Garton?
Huge news this morning as it was announced that Gartner had purchased the Burton Group in a straight cash transaction (reportedly $56 million). WTF?These are groups addressing two different constituencies. As the Wall Street Journal reported: "Gartner...
God’s personas
I was contemplating the Christmas season and what it means to those of a religious bent when it occurred to me that the idea of “persona” – different facets of a single identity – is thousands of years older than our digital world.A few years a...
Microsoft strengthens Healthcare IdM Portfolio
Microsoft announced today the acquisition of Sentillion, Inc., an acknowledged leader in IdM for the Healthcare industry.Earlier this year, the Gartner Group placed Sentillion in the "Visionaries" quadrant of their Magic Quandrant for User Provisionin...
Does anyone understand privacy?
Good post today from Sun's Michelle Dennedy on the whole privacy issue. She's commenting on a Gov't security official's quote: "We have a saying in this business: 'Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'" and responds:"I'm sure they have that saying...
He who steals my identity steals – not very much?
Good article in the Wall Street Journal today ("The Fallacy of Identity Theft") by Julia Angwin. She starts off:"As far as I know, no one can steal my identity. Even if my bank account number, my credit card number and all my passwords are stolen, I am...
Is there a future for OpenID?
Johannes Ernst, one of the founders of OpenID (and the OpenID Foundation) has just posted a thought provoking piece about the present state - and the future - of that protocol ("Is OpenID Still User-Centric?")I've pointed out before the problems betwee...
