PAOGA Digital Document Exchange

The digital revolution has resulted in many document based transactions being replaced by electronic authorisation, rather than signed documents. For instance credit card authorisation, tax returns and Companies House returns are all now done ‘online…

Privacy pendulum swings

If you haven’t been following the “right to be forgotten” topic, this article in The Atlantic is a fairly good primer – and it has a few quotes from Marty Abrams as a bonus. I’m with Marty on this – I don’t think that the right to be forg…

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…

80% of people concerned about their personal details online

Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, supported by Lord McNally, Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice are right to recognise the urgency of this issue but 'understanding the law and your rights' alone is not sufficient if unen…