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A Bretton Woods solstice

Yesterday I joined a panel at the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners. I was the odd man out in the group but that was the point. The organizers wanted somebody other than the Usual Suspects to bring an outside perspective to the …

Do you really want to access UK public services through US Facebook and Google?

Kelly Fiveash reports in The Register that "Facebook and other social networks [Google] could be used by British citizens to sign into public services online."
These two US companies have openly declared their ambition to 'own' all th…

claimID all over again

So, it seems we were onto something with claimID. Just not quite at the scale we needed back in 2005.
Today, Google launched “Me on the Web” as part of their Google Dashboard.
However, your online identity is determined not only by what you post, …

Dispelling the Myths Surrounding De-identification: Anonymization Remains a Strong Tool for Protecting Privacy