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Core Identities and Personal Data Stores

I just finished reading an intriguing white paper, “Towards a Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure for Core Identities and Personal Data Stores,” written by Thomas Hardjono, Dazza Greenwood, and Alex...

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IoT: A Market Landscape

Today I read an informative paper published by GigaOM Research entitled, “The Internet of Things: A Market Landscape.”  I find The Internet of Things to be the most interesting area of technology and...

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Privacy by Design Ambassador

It was an honor today to be announced as a Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada: Privacy by Design Ambassadors are an exclusive, but growing,...

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Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach

Today, we are pleased to announce publication of a paper entitled “Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach,” which I co-authored with Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Information &...

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Video: Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach

In the following video, Dr. Ann Cavoukian describes the paper I was privileged to co-author with her. More information and a download link is available here.

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Privacy and Security by Design: Foundational Principles

To prepare for my first meeting with Ann Cavoukian earlier this year, I drafted a brief table which proposed a set of principles for Security by Design that aligned with the well-know foundational...

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Great Book – Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy

This evening, I finished reading a fascinating book, “Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy,” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. Scoble and Israel propose that we are in the...

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Protect Privacy to Build Trust in the Age of Context

My recent post about the book, “Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy,” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, began to explore the benefits that might accrue from converging...

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Video: Ann Cavoukian – Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise...

The following video features Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada, discussing the paper I co-authored with her, “Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise...

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$1,000 per Record?

Today, I read of at three separate instances where class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of people whose personal information had been breached at a healthcare company.  The largest lawsuit,...

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Will the Government Micromanage Online Privacy?

I currently publish two blogs: “Discovering Identity” (this one) and “I Love Freedom.”  Usually, the information I publish on these blogs doesn’t overlap, but this subject certainly does, and is posted...

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Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans – Tech Talk – CBS News. Do we really want the President – or any federal official – establishing our personal Internet ID’s?  Sounds like government over-reach to...

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High Court Rules Against Corporate Privacy Rights

The Wall Street Journal reported today: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that personal-privacy rights don’t apply to corporations under the Freedom of Information Act. Tuesday’s ruling was a defeat...

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Dave Kearns and Dictionary.Com on Privacy

Triggered by Dave Kearn’s article today, “What is Privacy, Really,” I spent a few minutes this afternoon with my good friend dictionary.com.  It is amazing what one can learn about word meanings by...

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Being part of the honored 2% isn’t so gratifying

On April 4th, I received apology letters from my bank, a major retailer, a large pharmaceutical chain, and three hotel companies.  All of the apologies were similar, but I’ll share just one: Dear...

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Dear Kroger: Did You Forget to Tell Me?

My last post highlighted the well-publicized Epsilon data breach that affected so many consumers like me. But what if a company forgets to tell its customers? That may have happened to me. Our family...

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When Can I Pay for Stuff with my iPhone?

  I am anxious for the time when I can buy groceries or pay for a meal with my iPhone.  According to Juniper Research, that time may be be closer than you would think. As reported by GigaOM, Juniper...

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Hey Steve! Why are you tracking me?

I first read the news about Apple’s secretive location tracking capability in the Kaspersky Labs Threat Post article, “Secret iPhone Feature Tracks Owners’ Whereabouts“: Security researchers have...

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National Strategy For Trusted Identities In Cyberspace – My Take

  When I hear a message that begins, “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help,” I am naturally suspicious.  My political philosophy, based on personal freedom, individual responsibility and...

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Privacy Site: ApplicationPrivacy.org – Implement Trustworthy Data Practices

ApplicationPrivacy.org is a project of the Future of Privacy Forum intended to provide application developers with the tools and resources needed to implement trustworthy data practices. The Future of...

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Privacy Site: Future of Privacy Forum – Advancing Responsible Data Practices

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a Washington, DC based think tank that seeks to advance responsible data practices. The forum is led by Internet privacy experts Jules Polonetsky and Christopher...

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Fellow Facebook Users: We are the product Zuckerberg sells.

In my recent post, I made this observation: [Facebook and Google] are essentially advertising channels, whose real customers are not those of us who visit their sites, but the advertisers who pay them...

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Life Management Platforms: Informed Pull and Controlled Push

I have been intrigued by the potential emergence of “Life Management Platforms” as described in the Kuppinger-Cole advisory note, “Life Management Platforms: Control and Privacy for Personal Data.”...

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Orwell was a Prophet

I read a chilling article in the Wall Street Journal this evening, entitled, “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.” Yep … that means you and me – data about us law abiding citizens...

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Big Data is Watching You

Nishant Kaushik’s tweet today prompted some paranoid thoughts about the use of big data analytics. Scary #Privacy News Day: Raytheon RIOT – http://t.co/FB4dsnjv AND Equifax selling Employer shared...

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Privacy and Security by Design: A Convergence of Paradigms

In the Oracle Information InDepth newsletter I just received, a new white paper, “Privacy and Security by Design: A Convergence of Paradigms,” was announced. The paper is a collaboration of Ann...

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Report: Unlocking the Value of Personal Data

An interesting new report came to my attention today, “ Unlocking the Value of Personal Datra: From Collection to Usage,” published by the  World Economic Forum, prepared in collaboration with  The...

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Strong Alignment: Privacy and Security by Design

Today I had the privilege of having lunch with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, along with Jack Crail, Oracle Director of Security Sales Consulting for the...

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Privacy by Design – Principles or Requirements?

After reading the white paper, “Privacy and Security by Design, A Convergence of Paradigms,” this week, I pinged a couple of associates on Twitter to see what they thought about Privacy by Design....

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Forget Me, Please!

On today’s @OracleIDM / @embedprivacy #PrivQA Tweet Chat, much was said about the right of individuals to control how their data was being used. I posted the following statement: Privacy is freedom to...

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Mammoth – Will it be my Personal Cloud?

The most intriguing thing to hit my desk today was the announcement of the new Mammoth service to “save links, add notes, and selectively grab content from multiple webpages into a single, shareable,...

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#PrivQA Chat Archive

Last Thursday, I participated in the Privacy Tweet Chat led by @OracleIDM, featuring Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Canada, tweeting as @embedprivacy.  The #PrivQA...

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Gigabytes of Personal Data

Now, in honor of my post about Personal Clouds – the philosophy of Frank & Ernest:

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Oracle White Paper: Helping Address GDPR Compliance

May 25, 2018 is bearing down on us like a proverbial freight train. That is the date when the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes binding law on all companies who store or...

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Identity – Critical for GDPR?

How critical is Identity and Access Management to GDPR Compliance? The somewhat radical, but underlying philosophy of GDPR is that enterprises must enable individual data subjects (EU citizens) to...

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Can YOU choose how your personal data is used?

This little exchange highlights the essence of an individual’s right to privacy – Individuals should have control over how their personal data is used. Do you have control?  Should you? If you can’t...

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Time for a Federal Data Breach Law in the US?

Recently, I have given several presentations about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A common question that arises is whether we should expect a similar data protection...

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Bermuda Personal Information Protection Act

When I give a presentation about the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), someone usually asks how long it will be before the United States has a similar regulation?  I really don’t know, but the...

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Keep your Personal Data Safe Online

In the wake of the US Senate grilling Mark Zuckerberg about the Cambridge Analytics scandal, and as we move ever so quickly towards the May 25th date when the EU will begin enforcing the General Data...

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Everyone is a spidergram now

Has mis-use of surveillance and analytics technology become ingrained in our culture?  Not long ago, it was the NSA surveillance scandal the rocked our sensibilities.  Now Facebook and and Cambridge...

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5 stages of data privacy grief

Do you want some tasty ice cream?  I think Tom Fishburne nailed the essence of why people put up with social media intrusion into their personal space.

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GDPR: A Cost vs. Benefit Analysis

With the May 25th enforcement date for GDPR looming before us, it is easy to focus on the huge investment companies are making in efforts to comply.   However, an Information Week article authored by...

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GDPR Regulators Not Ready?

I find it incredibly ironic that EU regulators may not be ready to enforce GDPR when scheduled on May 25th. A Reuters Business News article, European regulators: We’re not ready for new privacy law,...

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GDPR Enforcement – What Will Happen Now?

Here we are, four days beyond May 25th – the date when enforcement of the Global Data Protection Regulation was to begin.  So far, no planes have fallen from the sky (remember dire Y2K warnings?) and...

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State by State Data Breach Map

Where data breach regulations are in force in your state? Check out the Snell & Wilmer interactive, state by state Data Breach Map.

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Personal Data: To Share or Not To Share?

We talk a lot about restricting what personal data we share on line, but is that sharing all bad? Tom Fishburne nails the issue with this week’s Marketoonist post. We’re in a marketing catch-22....

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