Upon2020 (archive)
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Why AccountChooser Isn’t
In time for #CIS2012, the OpenID Foundation and Google released a new version of accountchooser.com, a set of open-source software components that, as the name indicates, lets you choose your account on the web. Except that it doesn’t. Compare with a bank. Let’s say I want to check my balance at my bank, the accountchooser.com…
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Finally somebody does it: HealthTAP
Healthtap is a startup in Palo Alto that does something I’d been hoping for: it connects patients and doctors directly, via an iPad app, instead of indirectly through layers of receptionists, offices, schedules, and insurance policies. They are still young, and the functionality they offer is very limited, but one can see where this is…
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Between US and European Privacy, I prefer the US one
It’s common for privacy advocates to claim that European privacy rules are better than US ones. There is some truth to it, but consider this recent experience from my recent trip to Germany, the country where I grew up. I went to the sauna. (First German sauna in 18 years!) So here I’m sweating my…
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LID, OpenID and the Personal Cloud
When I started working on LID — the first proposal for a decentralized web identity system — about eight years ago, I did not just have a set of techie protocols in mind, but a technical architecture with social ramifications: people would grab a URL (say http://upon2020.com/), and set up their personal web presence at…