Anyone following me on Twitter is well aware of my stance on AddressBookGate. While the tech world’s initial outrage was being directed at Path, I felt that a more balanced conversation would also lay some culpability at the feet of Apple and other API platforms that were exposing data to applications like Path without any [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’
Google+ and The Trouble With Tribbles
In a prior post I talked about the backlash against the “Real Names” policy that Google has instituted for it’s Google+ social network. The resulting nymwars are in full force, and drew me into a very interesting twitter back-and-forth between Kevin Marks, myself and Tim O’Reilly over the weekend, which Kaliya (or IdentityWoman, as she [...]
What’s In A Name? A Lot, Actually
The “Real Names” debate has been fascinating to watch, because it such an intriguing melange of issues – social conventions, technical requirements, best practices, community responsibility – rolled into what would on the surface seem to be a very simple problem. After all, what we’re really talking about is what value to let people put [...]
Sometimes It Is Better To Detect Than Prevent
The recent tragedy in Tucson, AZ has gripped the nation in more ways than one. There are so many different story lines unfolding out of that single tragedy – about politics, about rhetoric, about immigration, about dreams. Significantly less visceral, but important from an identity management perspective is this avoidable but all too common story [...]
Visitors Have Identities Too (to manage, use & abuse)
I just got back from a trip to Europe, where I had the opportunity to visit a number of Oracle (including former Sun) IdM customers. During the trip I (quite unintentionally) got some insight into an area of enterprise identity management that I had not considered before – Identity Management for Visitors. Over the last [...]
Introducing Oracle Security Governor for Healthcare
At OpenWorld today, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Security Governor for Healthcare, a unique and comprehensive security governance solution that helps healthcare organizations with proactive detection and prevention of security and privacy breaches (click here for the press release). Oracle Security Governor becomes the second product we have in the identity governance space, taking [...]
Microsoft releases U-Prove under OSP
Back in 2008, Microsoft acquired some innovative technology called U-Prove that promised to solve an age old privacy question: How can I disclose the minimal information that I need to for the purpose of an online transaction, without having to also disclose additional (sensitive) information to establish trust in that first set of data. U-Prove [...]
Burton Catalyst 2009: There are Lessons to Learn
After a good start to the conference, I went into day 2 thinking that there was going to be more opportunity for me to blog while in the session room because the content would be fairly familiar. But there were lots of good nuggets of information spread throughout the talks, enough to generate a generous [...]
Are Social Networks the biggest threat to User Privacy?
Privacy advocates have long been raising a hue and cry about the negative impact social networking sites are having on privacy. For the most part, the glare has been on the poor security practices and privacy controls of these sites. But now researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have brought to light a [...]
International Data Privacy Day: Real Problems, Real Solutions
Wednesday, January 28 is International Data Privacy Day, honoring the anniversary of the Council of Europe Convention on Data Protection (No. 108), the most important international law for privacy. The purpose of this convention is to secure in the territory of each Party for every individual, whatever his nationality or residence, respect for his rights [...]
