Relationship context metadata

In our paper “A Relationship Layer for the Web“, we defined a “contextual identity asset” as a package containing two kinds of information:

Identity information about an individual
Relationship Context Metadata

Relationship context metadata e…

The continuing story of Privacy Mirror

For those of you interested in my ongoing tinkering with Facebook to explore how apps gain access to data, I have added a few more observations here. The short version is that although Facebook’s extended permissions to help inform users of how apps …

We are the disrobots

Our technology and our society have reached a point where our privacy can be automatically impinged. We have fully automated disrobing ourselves. We have created the disrobot – a machine or process which automates the stripping away of the veil of pr…