Archives for February 2011

eID: Apps need Assertions

eID in a federated environment has many complex governance aspects.  It does have a major impact in the applications which may use it.  Stian Sigvartsen has been running a blog for a couple of months on “Achieving a federated single view of the cus…

Changing Sails

I work for a startup called Kynetx, among people with great vision and detirmination to realize that vision.
This past week, we’ve made the difficult but powerful decision to change our sails. Since the company was started, we’ve been running with ou…

Web thinkers are not confused by shiny new things

I just heard a segment of Living on Earth in which Kevin Doran described the privacy concerns raised by smart meters that read the energy signatures of your appliances and report back to the grid. For example, an insurance company might see that you r…

Personal Data Ecosystem Responses to FTC and Commerce Dept. Papers

I worked hard with the chair of our board Mary Hodder on our responses to the Commerce Deparment Privacy Green Paper and the Federal Trade Commission White Paper on “Do Not TracK”.
They outline in detail our worldview and put forward the third way a p…