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Aggregated blog posts from the community (including ourselves)

Circling Around Your Wallet ProjectVRM

We're talking here about banks, insurance companies and anything called an agency, plus all the new companies coming into the personal services and personal data store businesses. These might include parties the individual doesn't pay, …

Ping Talk – Ping Identity: Pornographers, privacy and you

Is there yet another leak in the personal privacy boat?
This time it’s the work of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, (D-Fla.) and 25 other co-sponsors, who approved a bill (H.R. 1981) that would require Internet service p…

SPAM Brands

I just had an interesting meeting about South Africa’s anti-spam laws and how they are evolving.
The Protection of Personal Information Bill (not law yet) is being watered down by groups lobbying against it’s original Opt-In model.
What is Opt-In a…

Johannes Ernst – NetMesh: User-Centricity and Steve Jobs

Without Steve Jobs, this industry already feels like it has lost something. Something important. A key vibe, philosophy, point of view, … I was struggling with figuring out what until I discussed school work with my kid tween today. He has to write s…