Upon2020 (archive)
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“The Case for OpenID” published by Digital ID World
ZDNet’s Digital ID World blog just published an op-ed piece by myself and David Recordon of Verisign. Here is the teaser: The Case for OpenID Many digital identity technologies exist already; why does the world need OpenID? Its ever-growing ranks of supporters prefer OpenID because it is fundamentally different from other identity technologies in at…
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Some interesting tidbits from HealthCamp
Health Camp was interesting today. Thanks for organizing it. I’m looking forward to the next one! I’m not entirely clear who it was who put this information on the white board, but I thought it was interesting. On the question "how much information related to healthcare is available in electronic form": Consumer Data ? Physician…
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Dan Pritchett and Randy Shoup: The eBay Architecture
This week, I attended a very interesting presentation by Dan Pritchett and Randy Shoup, both senior technologists at eBay, on eBay’s architecture. Some of it was as I would have expected, other things were, shall we say, counter-intuitive. Here is a random collection of notes, with some special exclamation marks: 212 million registered users, 1…
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HealthCamp
I’ll be at HealthCamp this Saturday in San Francisco. The idea is to start a "health 2.0" conversation about the 2 trillion dollar (in the US) healthcare industry that’s bit like the web 2.0 discussion, or the identity 2.0 discussion, or … you get the idea. With hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs…
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Questions about User-Centric Identity
Stefan Brands, eminent privacy and security researcher, asks good questions about user-centric identity. (I think they apply regardless of protocol. I have taken the liberty to replace some geeky terms with more plain ones, because I think it’s important that as many people as possible understand these questions) Can the individual consent to or withhold…