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Identity Management in New Zealand, CeBIT Australia and the Merry Month of May ...

Malcolm Crompton's picture
Thu, 29/05/2008 - 00:05 — Malcolm Crompton

In the world of information governance and a fair go for the individual in dealings with business and government, how has it felt this month?  

Weatherwise, for the folk in northern temperate climates, May is the time that the summer clothing begins to break out, people begin to smile and in England, the challenge of scoring 1000 runs in May is in the air.  Here in the southern temperate climes that I mostly inhabit we are moving solidly into winter.

In the world of information governance and a fair go for the individual in dealings with business and government, how has it felt this month?  Does it feel like we are North of the Equator or South?

It seems to have been a mixed bag.

The month was heralded by the Managing Identity in New Zealand conference which you can now see in full on video and included the eGov forum in Sydney.

But there was also chilly weather ...

Plurality of Identities, and trouble ahead with biometrics

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Thu, 01/11/2007 - 13:02 — StephenWilson

The idea of biometric authentication plays straight into the view that each user has one "true" identity underpinning multiple authorisations.  

 I recently noted in the thread on identities and keys that: [We need] identity frameworks (like the Microsoft developed Identity Metasystem aka Cardspace) that permit as many "identities" as there are contexts in which we assert ourselves.

We are in the midst (I hope!) of a shift to a new paradigm based on a plurality of identities. And I think I'm using the over-wrought "p word" here in its proper context. The current "singular identity" paradigm has had a deep and unhelpful influence over the way we think about all sorts of things, including smartcards, PKI, biometrics, the semantic debate over "authentication" versus "authorisation", and therefore the underlying architecture of many approaches to federation.

The 'Virtual Opportunity IV on Identity & Access' Report

Mon, 15/10/2007 - 14:48 — gapadmin

In December 2006, Global Access Partners and the National Consultative Committee on Security and Risk (NCCSR) hosted Virtual Opportunity Congress IV at Queensland Parliament House in Brisbane on the issues of identity management, access, security and privacy in the online environment. It brought together over 100 delegates from government, banking, finance, health, transport, education, defence, social services and other sectors of the economy where identity management has vital implications.

 

When does a key become an identifier?

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Tue, 10/07/2007 - 16:47 — StephenWilson

Should we re-visit the intuition that identities can be federated?  Do we really know what it means to "add up" a bank card and a Medicare card?  Do we have the mathematics to do such a thing with rigor, asks Stephen Wilson.

I wonder ...

Is a passport an "identifier"?
Is a drivers licence an identifier?
Is a credit card an identifier?
Is a professional membership card an identifier?
Is a building access card an identifier?
Is a house key an identifier?
Is a car key an identifier?

Or putting the questions another way ...