Johannes Ernst on January 27th, 2005

Better Business Bureau and Javelin Strategy & Research have released a study that indicates …that despite growing fears about identity theft and online fraud, of the victims that know the identity and method used by the criminal, these crimes are more frequently committed offline than online. Internet-related fraud problems are actually less severe, less costly [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 18th, 2005

Absolutely, any broadly useful digital identity system must include people as essential parts. In that respect, the 6th law is absolutely essential. Where I’m getting confused is in the long explanation leading the the 6th law in Kim’s post. For example, when he says: What is to prevent a piece of code running on your [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 17th, 2005

William Heath writes about the ongoing universal identity debate in the UK in the response to a few blog posts including mine on the George Mason University identity break-in: The sickening logic is that these ill-conceived university ID systems make appealing targets for identity thieves, and that a compulsory UK ID system will be far [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 17th, 2005

Kim Cameron writes: In the last few days, an amazing number of people have written asking me to comment on LID. Being one of the people who came up with LID, I’m quite happy about that. We’ve been getting a tremendous response, for sure.

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Johannes Ernst on January 6th, 2005

I was asked how exactly LID™ relates to Kim Cameron‘s Laws of Identity that have been getting a lot of buzz recently. Here are my thoughts: The Law of Control Technical identity systems MUST only reveal information identifying a user with the user’s consent. LID only reveals information that has been specifically declared, by the [...]

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