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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.

Could the Fiscal Cliff Kill NSTIC?

Cuts are coming to US federal government spending in the new year. Cuts will come by cleaver if a “fiscal cliff avoiding” budget is passed or with a chainsaw if Congress and the President fall over the “cliff.” High hopes fly for an international identity system that works across industries, technologies, governments, regulatory schemes and still […]

Do we still think this defines personal data ecosystem?

Did you see this whiteboard? The definition showed up at the 14th IIW unconference in May 2012.  “PDEC Consensus Definition. Interoperability is not about swapping massive amounts of data semantically unchanged from one provider to another, but to easily get authorized by a user to grab specific pieces of information on their behalf from lots […]