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PDEC Startup Circle Launched concurrent with World Economic Forum meeting

Who: Kaliya Hamlin, Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium (PDEC) executive director What: Ms. Hamlin announces PDEC’s first class of members in its Startup Circle When: Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at 1300 Vienna, Noon London, 5:00 AM New York and 3:00 AM San Francisco Where: Vienna, Austria Why: The first thirteen Startup Circle companies are building tools […]

Discussion: Building for a Personal Data Ecosystem – A Case Study

Just left the Quantified Self conference where I led a session in the last breakout on “building for a personal data ecosystem.” Since we weren’t on the official program, i was very happy to be holding something in an Infinity session. Fifteen or so …

PDEC at IIW: An NSTIC Project Risk Analysis

At last week’s Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California, I led a brainstorming session to identify risks to the success of the new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC, pronounced “EN-stick”). The strategy is to encourage many non-government organizations to provide digital identity and personal data services in a way that meets […]

Tracking Do Not Track at Morris + King

A bit of Context Obviously, this diagram is a little cynical, but not too far off from how we manage personal data online today. But there are a lot of proposals on the table to fix this dilemma. One is Do Not Track which industry sees as something they can self-impose on an *opt-in* basis […]