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Privacy by Design: An oxymoron, an impossibility or the way to go? A Big Picture seminar in Brisbane

Malcolm Crompton's picture

Privacy by Design incorporates privacy from the planning stage rather than tacking it on at the end.

Empowering individuals to control their personal information

Malcolm Crompton's picture

A privacy paper from the UK tells only part the story of ‘context specific authentication’ and leaves at least two questions unanswered.

Balancing Privacy and Convenience

patrickcallioni's picture

The model I propose draws on the concept of an electronic service broker as the foundation for an integrated approach to the management of personal health data and information.

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

Malcolm Crompton's picture

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?

Plurality of Identities, and trouble ahead with biometrics

StephenWilson's picture

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.

When does a key become an identifier?

StephenWilson's picture

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 ...