Archives for February 2013

Security, Personal Clouds, and Aaron’s Law

Is the personal cloud community ready for the security and law enforcement communities?

PDNYC’s First Meetup on Tuesday

The first Personal Data NYC meetup is at 5:45 PM, Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at WeWork Labs, 175 Varick Street and Charlton, 8th floor, New York, NY.

Survey: What does Big Data know about you? A quick self-test.

A few minutes and you’ll see what up to five different data aggregators are saying about you. Is it right? Is it serious? Tell Enliken in this anonymous survey.

White Paper: What Could Kill NSTIC? A friendly threat assessment

At two events 18-months apart, teams of suits, geeks, and wonks (industry experts, technologists, public policy analysts) brainstormed and scored what could lead to failure of NSTIC, an international effort to create an identity ecosystem. The whitepaper at http://pde.cc/nsticrisks recaps the long list of potential threats, a shorter list of preventive strategies, compares the 2011 and 2012 events, and names the two greatest threats: poor user experience (harming trust, adoption, use) and imbalance among the forces tying the identity ecosystem together.