Tag: Personal Identity Management

Facebook and the Social Graph

Last week I commented on Dan Nye’s apparent lack of understanding about the need for a social graph for the web. This week, I read the following comment by Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, on how he defines the social graph: “When we talk about the social graph we are talking about

The LinkedIn Relationship Silo

Seems like all of a sudden the New York Times is a font of knowledge about identity management topics. In an interview that he gave to Saul Hansell for the BITS blog of the NYT, Dan Nye, the chief executive of LinkedIn, said the following about the emerging idea of a social graph for the

Revisiting the Identity Oracle concept

Yesterday I talked about the NYT article on personal identity management, and alluded to the discussion it generated on the nature of the Identity Oracle that Burton’s Bob Blakely introduced a while ago. The Identity Oracle concept is at the heart of any L.L.P based identity infrastructure. Kim Cameron read the article and the following

The Personal Identity Management Discussion Goes Mainstream

Yesterday I read an article in the New York Times entitled ‘Securing Very Important Data: Your Own‘. One of the rare mainstream discussions about personal identity management (as opposed to the common identity theft related articles that you see constantly), the article touched upon some of the more interesting discussions that are going on in

Digital ID World recap: Identity Services is Next

It took me a while to recover from last weeks Digital ID World conference. And it wasn’t just because of the mad scramble I went through at the last minute to update all my slides for my talk. That was just the side effect of spending too much time in some really interesting sessions and

The Need for Personae in Social Networking

Facebook is attracting a lot of attention from the identity community, with many of us signing up on the site. And the blog entries regarding the experience make for some interesting reading. Pamela Dingle blogged about the basic dilemma that most of us faced when we first signed up – our disinclination to give up

Will RFID force Consumers towards Personal Identity Management?

In a recent blog post (E-Passports equals E-pportunity for Hackers?), I touched on the security and privacy issues arising from the use of RFID technology in the context on the new e-passports. Now Scientific Technology Options Assessment (STOA), an arm of the European Parliament, has released a report (RFID and Identity Management in Everyday Life)

Why Social Websites are really Faux-Social

Wired contributor Scott Gilbertson recently ranted about how social networks are adding to the ubiquitous walled gardens on the web (Slap in the Facebook: It’s Time for Social Networks to Open Up). He talked about something that we are all a little weary of – having to set up the same relationships in each social

E-Passports equals E-pportunity for Hackers?

Electronic passports are not only insecure, they can be used as tools to commit fraud and mischief. That is the contention of an RFID expert that has been investigating the new digital passports and passport readers that make up the next generation of our most definitive identifying document. Wired news covered Lukas Grunwald’s exposure of

How Facebook is changing the world of identity

Okay, so the days of questioning the impact of social networking websites on our digital lives is long gone. But the nature of the impact is still being understood, and this is producing some interesting findings. While the world of sociology is trying to make sense of the seeming divide between Facebook and MySpace users