Recent Activity Pt 4: Europe Week 1
Week one in Europe was busy. The day I arrived Esther picked me up and we headed to Qiy's offices where i got to run into John Harrison who I last saw a year ago at IIW Europe. He is organizing a consortium to go in for FP-7 money (80 million) put out for projects...
Disintermediation: an Amazon parable
A spine tingling story with a sequel about reusable identities
Google+ says your name is "Toby" NOT "Kunta Kinte"
This post is about what is going on at a deeper level when Google+ says your name is "Toby" NOT "Kunta Kinte". The punchline video is at the bottom feel free to scroll there and watch if you don't want to read to much. This whole line of thought to explain to those who don't...
Lets try going with the Mononym for Google+
Seeing that Google+ is approving mononyms for some (Original Sai, on the construction of names Additional Post) but not for others (Original Stilgherrian Post Update post ). I decided to go in and change my profile basically back to what it was before all this started. I put a ( . ) dot in the...
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
VMWare, Identity and User-Centricity in the Enterprise
Lots of good commentary on VMWare’s new Horizon App Manager today, which is what their Tricipher acquisition seems to have turned into. The phrase that struck me the most — thus this post — was Krishnan‘s description at CloudAve...
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.
“HTTPS Now” Campaign Unfortunately Does Not Fix the Problem
EFF activist Eva Galperin in quoted in a ReadWriteWeb article introducing their new campaign: “HTTPS provides the minimum level of security for websites. Without it, no site can make any meaningful security or privacy guarantees to its users.R...
Privacy Bill of Rights establishes device identifiers as PII
But despite real positives, the bill as currently formulated leaves me eager to consult a bevy of lawyers...
Kerry McCain bill proposes “minimal disclosure” for transaction
Seminal advance: definition of "covered information" specifically includes device IDs.
Is Google+ is being lynched by out-spoken users upset by real names policy?