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Queer Identities and discrimination online
So there is a big hubub going on around World of Warcraft [the new "golf" in case you haven't heard yet - I can't wait until we have WoW day pre DIDW instead of real golf...what do you think Vince ]....
View ArticleDigital Rights New Rights for a New Era - Lessig and Stallman
There is a great new documentary coming out ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM produced by Project Free Zarathustra. They have a great list of links. Related posts: Announcing The Virtual Rights Symposium on Digital...
View ArticleMy phone number is my number...not the phone compaines
I just got this note from a friend...it sucks. The government is ours not the phone companies but some how they are doing this. REMINDER....16 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released...
View ArticleEmerging Identity Standards
I am deeply conflicted - Standards for users is happening at BloggerCon the same tim as Who Owns You at SuperNova. So for both ""panels"" I though I would share that this week there were three major...
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The unexpected posterchild of HollyHock
This was a very interesting expereicne - I go to HollyHock's website to see when the Leadership Workshop starts on August 18th. Then I see this - The picture was taken buy Kris Krug (an amazing...
View ArticleNet Nuetrality to-Regulate or Not-to-Regulate
This NYTimes piece hightlights an interesting perspective about why regulating the Internet may not be a good idea to protect Net Nuetrality. It’s tempting to believe that government regulation of the...
View ArticleIdentity in the Arab World pt1
Two stories that I have read in the print the last two weeks about Identity issues in the Arab world that are worth surfacing. First of all this story in Newsweek Iraq:A Deadly Name Game By law, all...
View ArticleYet Another Conference with a Digital Identity Track
We have the Forthcoming ACM conference with a special day on November 3 on Digital Identity. I just found this annoucement from the Future of Identity in the Information Society (FIDIS) about a special...
View ArticlePaul how does SAML help exactly?
I thought you could clarify how you think SAML will help with this. While multiple screen names can be tracked at home, the company is working on a tool to associate different screen names across...
View ArticleMomentum has a section on Digital ID
My friend Allison Fine finally got her book published - Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. On her blog she writes about engaging with the digital world. Her perspective is great...
View ArticleIdentity Commons, Aldo interviews Eugene and I
About two weeks ago Aldo interviewed Eugene and I about Identity Commons. It was just posted this morning. So enjoy. Related posts: Meeting an 'identity man' (Aldo Castenda) Identity Commons Wiki...
View ArticleConcerning acts of legislation
I just read a link to this on Slashdot. I am quite concerned about what it says. In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy...
View ArticleJust what I was afraid of.
From Slashdot: Federal prosecutors say they don't need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else's computer. "We're looking at a future in...
View ArticleTracking content online
Attributor Corp is launching a product that combs the entire web for 'unauthorized uses.' From the WSJ: They claim to have cracked the thorny computer-science problem of scouring the entire Web by...
View ArticleCorporations plan to contribute Open Source OpenID
This was a great to see from James McGovern: In terms of my own planned 2007 contributions to open source, I will be commiting to contributing to the authorization specification as part of the OpenID...
View ArticleCredit Checks by the Government 'legal'
More privacy invasion by the Executive Branch: Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people's rights by examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of...
View ArticleFlickr SUCKS
They are forcing us to merge our identities. I thought they decided not to do this. They let us keep our old way of logging in. I joined FLICKR not YAHOO. I really don't care that they got bought. I do...
View ArticleAge and Idetntity in Second life
I just found this from someone linking to my WoW piece. It seems that Linden Lab will be doing age verification - from their blog: We will shortly begin beta testing an age and identity verification...
View ArticleYeah! for the Fourth Amendment
I have been worried about this for a while (see this post from Dec 2006 and way back when in August 2005 when I first was alerted to this issue) Just when things were looking really grim on the online...
View ArticleWill Netizen rights be protected?
From Slashdot: "The NSA has a new assignment. No longer merely responsible for signals intelligence, the NSA now has the task of defending against cyber attacks on government and private networks. 'The...
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