Thursday, April 24, 2003

DNA Fingerprinting for All!. The inventor of the modern forensic technique says that everyone's DNA, not just criminals', should be recorded in a massive new database. Sir Alec Jeffreys cautions, however, that such a database should be administered by an independent agency, not the police. [Wired News] 3:57:24 AM

	Monday, April 14, 2003

Web services, ID management dominate RSA show. LibertyAlliance readies framework [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:19:38 PM

	Friday, April 4, 2003

"The pieces of our identity are increasingly scattered across those companies and institutions with which we interact online. Banks, credit card companies, brokerage firms, the department of motor vehicles, insurance companies, government agencies, telephone companies -- the list is growing. Pieces of our identity are doled out across the many computer systems and networks used by our employers, ISPs, bulletin boards, instant messaging systems, and online businesses, all with little coordination, interaction, or control on our part. "Creating a federated identity infrastructure is the key to correcting this situation...." XML.com: The Liberty Alliance. Paul Madsen provides a technical overview of the Liberty Alliance phase 1 architecture and a glimpse at phase 2. Phase 2 also includes the introduction of Liberty Alliance Identity Services Interface Specifications (ID-SIS), a collection of specifications built on the ID-WSF. These specifications will provide a standard way for companies to build interoperable services like registration profiles, contact books, calendar, geo-location, or alert services. The first service interface specification to be introduced is the ID-Personal Profile, which will define a basic profile template that can be used to build a registration service. [Scott Loftesness] 6:20:40 PM

	Wednesday, April 2, 2003

Simon Pugh on identity management and Liberty Alliance. ... [Jon's Radio] CTO Forum: Tackling identity. LibertyAlliance spotlighted Pugh said he has learned the hard way how malleable an online and electronic identity is once he moved to the United States from the United Kingdom a few years ago and was forced to start a new identity from scratch. "All my records I built up [over a lifetime] in the U.K. didn't mean anything in the U.S. ," said Pugh. "It's a network world and more and more people desire to interact with services and remote services and networks... managing those identity services in a distributed fashion is an extremely great challenge." [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:44:10 PM

	Sunday, March 30, 2003

A good read on the two poles of digital identity & why we need both Jamie Lewis: Ends and Means - Identity in Two Worlds. Jamie Lewis of the Burton Group updates his thoughts about digital identity following PC Forum. Reflecting on my experiences at PC Forum, I became keenly aware that two evolving worlds understand each other poorly, and how, perhaps, digital identity is the subject that will allow (or force) them to understand each other. Lewis goes on to describe the world of ends (consumers) and the world of means (big companies). Although they interconnect, they're really two different worlds and a common digital identity solution that spans all of the needs and stakeholders is unlikely. [Scott Loftesness] 2:40:51 PM

	Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Face recognition gets lift, says U.S.. Spurred by two federal antiterrorism statutes, the Commerce Department releases a study showing that face-recognition technology is hitting its stride. [CNET News.com] 5:02:11 AM

	Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Scanning the future of privacy. Engineers who design biometric technologies and Internet authentication mechanisms should take more aggressive steps to preserve privacy, a new government report says. [CNET News.com] 7:36:07 PM

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