Archives for November 2010

Mid-Nov Mydex comms update

Word of what Mydex does is spreading. This week The Wall Street Journal carried a profile of Mydex concluding
Mydex is a very elegant solution to a very difficult, and expensive, problem. It has the added advantage of not being a regulatory solution.
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People and online services: leaving value on the table

The recent Google-Facebook flap demonstrates that the hottest battleground for users’ control of the data they pump into these online services is the sites’ Terms of Service. Why? Because when you’re not a paying customer, you’re not in a hugel…

Identity Fallacy – No2UID

This is a tough blog. The ideas started six years ago, when I was battling with solutions for multi-agency information sharing, but they have not gone away. Robin Wilton (@futureidentity) privately reminded me. “I know you’re ahead of your time, …

Privacy isn’t the “Third Rail;” it’s a tactic leaders embrace

Mathew Ingram shared two ways companies should respond to privacy issues.

Make settings visible and easy to use. Facebook has made a series of changes to its privacy settings over the past year, but one of the risks is that the more complex and diff…