Archives: September, 2009
WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Pleased to be able to report the dogs b*llocks of ID announcements: Washington, D.C. – September 9, 2009 – Ten industry leaders – Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems – announced today they will support the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, September 5th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
A Mitch Kapor Tweet points me to the US-based Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, and their manifesto for restoring trust in elections. These problems are very bad in the States, and half-baked and inadequate US “solutions” got exported in a characteristically aggressive manner to the UK and elsewhere. So it’s heartening to see Americans of [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, September 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
Having dumped controversial former chief executive Wally O’Dell in 2005Diebold has now finally dumped its e-voting unit. This was a deeply unpleasant history, and the new buyer Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is far from Ideal.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
(from The Times): There is now “CCTV on every corner”; traffic cameras track car numberplates; credit and debit cards reflect movement and use; satellites track mobile phones; and there are “vast databases”, he writes…“And then we have the ‘toolkit’ issued to teachers for the purpose of the ‘Prevent agenda’ by which pupils’ behaviour and thinking [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Here’s a seven laws of identity poster from Kim’s blog. Cool. I wish they were plastered all over St James’ Park tube.
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
This in from Scotland Public sector organisations should avoid creating large centralised databases of personal information and keep clear audit trails of how identity data is used, under new proposals published today. Leads into their consultation on privacy (see below). The draft privacy principles are worth repeating: # Proving identity or entitlement: people should only [...]
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