In my last blog (Privacy By Design – The Secret Inside the Internet) I wrote about how the very design of the Web allows us to extend it to support a contextual approach to privacy online. In this post we’ll talk about how you can enable it. But first a little context (pun intended). The […]
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Privacy By Design – The Secret Inside the Internet
Shush – I’m going to tell you a secret. It’s one that no one has paid attention to for over a decade now. And like most secrets, it’s been hiding in plain sight. The story starts years ago, but we can skip most of that, and begin in June of 1999 when they […]
A Solution for NISTs Identity Ecosystem
For today’s blog we’re going to take a look at NISTs “Identity Ecosystem” and see if it’s possible to build it. The key attributes of the Identity Ecosystem include privacy, convenience, efficiency, ease-of-use, security, confidence, innovation, and choice. So we have a lot of things to consider when building this solution. When looking at […]
The Consensual Web
As you know, we’ve been closely watching the discussions regarding the Do Not Track (DNT) initiative. A key discussion point is about first and third parties and how a third party can become a first party once you click on a “like” button or click through to another site or use an embedded service within […]
Oh what a tangled “web” we weave… When first we practice to “deceive!”
With apologies to Sir Walter Scott I’m going to highlight two words in his quote – web & deceive The Internet has created this incredible ecosystem for users to express themselves – however with this increased expression has come increased access to personal information that can be saved on corporate servers, searched and then […]