July 2010 - Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Stephan Engberg on Touch2ID

Stephan calls for more discussion about the definition of privacy and the approaches that can be taken in creating such a definition Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 9:02 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Research, Digital Identity, Human Interfaces, Biometrics

Blizzard backtracks on real-names policy

Blizzard relents on plan to betray user privacy but clings to demented Facebook fantasy Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 8:25 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Rights, Digital Identity, Laws of Identity

Southworks seeds open source claims transformer

With Southworks' STS your apps can keep using WIF as the claims framework, no matter what your Identity Provider is. WS-Fed == enterprise, OpenID == consumer… Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 3:11 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Identity Metasystem, Claims, Federation, OpenID, Code, WS-*

Trusting Mobile Technology

Influential European ICT expert Jacques Bus on my posts about MAC addresses and their use by Google and Apple Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 11 2010 9:19 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Linkage, Digital Rights, Identity, Wifi, Mobile, in I

Using Consumer Identities for Business Interactions

Medtronic constructed an identity for the user containing both claims that came from the original PayPal identity and claims it added (“mashed-up”) to form a new, composite identity. Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 10 2010 9:13 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Identity Metasystem, Claims, Cloud, OpenID, SAML, Identity Industry

How to anger your most loyal supporters

Stupid anti-privacy strategy mobilizes players against World of Warcraft Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 6:20 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Linkage, Minimal Disclosure, Digital Identity, Laws of Identity, Business Model

“Microsoft Accuses Apple, Google of Attempted Privacy Murder”

Microsoft Identity Guru Accuses Apple, Google of trying to bury privacy alive Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 9:52 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Identity, Identity, Laws of Identity, Wifi, Mobile

Doing it right: Touch2Id

Minimal disclosure proof of age program is being expanded due to its initial success Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 04 2010 5:45 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Minimal Disclosure, Digital Rights, Laws of Identity, strong authentication, Biometrics

Microsoft identity guru questions Apple, Google on mobile privacy

The current abuse of personal device identifiers by Google and Apple is at least as significant as the problems I discussed long ago with Passport Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 04 2010 1:33 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Ethics, Identity, Laws of Identity, Wifi

Update to iTunes comes with privacy fibs

As the personal phone evolves it will become increasingly obvious that groups within our best tech companies have built businesses based on consciously crafted privacy fibs. Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 03 2010 3:31 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Rights, Ethics, Identity, Wifi