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What is an identity?

Hi, here comes the weekly update.... I am trying to post on during the weekend, but didn't make it this weekend. However I do have a very nice new home office that materialized over the weekend, so feeling it was pretty productive, means I have a more comfortable environment on which to sit and post away on this ISM-community :-)

It has started raining this evening, so also very good weather today to be sitting indoors! Pity I can't send some of this 'down-under', according to Tim they're having a bad time through lack of rain there, and here is so lovely and wet!

OK, so updates during the week are as follows: 

1. What is an identity? It doesn't matter how may virtual identities you have, whether they are alias or not, they all count as your identity and can have an impact on your reputation -your real reputation and your virtual. Check out the forum to understand how we got here. If you dispute these conclusions, then you are welcome to post.

2. There have been agreements also concerning the definitions of 'identification' and 'authentication'. Check out the glossary being compiled by Mark in the downloads space. If you want to understand how we got here take a visit to the forum. We are also in agreedmentconcerning what is meant by authorization surprisingly! Although there maybe some subtle re-wording later.

3. A standard Privacy Policy has been uploaded into the download space. Although this is just one of several. I plan to add additional policies that include 'opt-in' and 'opt-out' as defaults. Check out the privacy forum for more information on what I mean here.

4. There are 2 new threads looking at privacy legislation. The first thread on adoption of the DPA in the EU on a local country level, the second thread in on differences in legislation between the EU and the US. Each of these threads are looking pretty empty right now, so please go in there and start posting!

This is all for now, have fun posting and look forward to meeting you there!

Karen 

Published May 21 2007, 08:56 PM by klo

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About klo

Hi there, my name is Karen, I'm a Brit although I work today for Hewlett-Packard as a Senior Information Security Consultant in Sweden. Before H-P I have worked some years for Novell and CERN in Switzerland and France since moving from the UK. I am particularly excited by the subject area of identity and privacy after over 10 years of focus in this area, and with almost 20 years experience in IT. There is loads I could share, but I guess all you need to know for the purpose of this public forum is that I have had my more 'geeky' years, and today although evolved into something more -whatever this is ;-) - have still problems to keep away from my laptop in the expectation that something else out there has happened that could impact how we manage our identity today and potential implications to our personal privacy for tomorrow! I love formulising otherwise fluffy concepts and problems to make them into something concrete, and this is what makes the space of identity and privacy so exciting. There is so much work to be done, and because of this there so much going on.
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