Google Health Has Only Months to Live
HealthVault to die 1/1/12: When we launched Google Health, our goal was to create a service that would give people access to their personal health and wellness information. We wanted to translate our...
View ArticleThe App that Ate the Plastic Card
There’s a lot of smart stuff about why the mobile Starbucks phone app caught on and the Mondex digital cash card failed in Dave Birch’s latest at ‘Consult Hyperion’. If you are into e-payments, you...
View ArticleFrench Constitutional Court says French Biometric ID Card Legislation is...
The somewhat impenetrable decision is Decision no. 2012-652 DC. Discussion at Official: stillborn French biometric ID card scheme not just extra-terrestrial but also unconstitutional, 13 times over. My...
View ArticleGenuine Tinfoil Solution to ID Hacking
Foil Electronic Pickpockets with Aluminum Foil or Multiple Credit Cards — Lifehacker. (Not really ‘politics’ but I couldn’t resist putting this under “tinfoil”.)
View ArticleUS ID Card Policy: Not Very Coherent
From Eye On Miami, a real and true story. Forgive me for quoting in full, but it’s too delicious: After a number of automatic renewals of my drivers license, The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles...
View ArticleSFDB Not-So-Random Thought Of The Day
I like this question from South Florida Daily Blog: Florida law requires concealed carry weapon permit holders to be U.S. citizens. Just like voting laws. So I’m wondering what the reaction would be...
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I Didn’t Expect It So Soon
From Naked Capitalism, Police State Watch: NYPD to Install Checkpoints, Demand ID in Lower Manahttan on OWS Anniversary: As it happens, I am teaching a seminar on the Regulation of Identification, and...
View ArticleFight Procrastination on Taxes to Avoid ID Theft
This may be the first piece of advice the U has sent me on ID theft that I actually agree with: Tax Season Is Here; File Early to Avoid Scams: As faculty and staff start receiving their W-2s and other...
View ArticleSenators Reject Biometric Worker ID Card
The NYT reports that Senators trying to hash out a bipartisan immigration bill have rejected using biometric ID cards to identify legal workers: The bipartisan group of eight senators is also still...
View Article#NameCollision
AS WELL AS CAUSING an outpouring of grief, vitriol and general controversy, the death of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher on Monday also managed to highlight the pitfalls of hashtags. The...
View ArticleEggs. Basket.
One of the big problems with top-down, logical, designs for national identification systems is that they tend strongly towards a single point of failure. Fatal crypto flaw in some [Taiwanese]...
View ArticleInternational Standard Name Identifier Gets the Hasbrouck Treatment
Ed Hasbrouck takes on the International Standard Name Identifier and asks some good questions about data sources, data quality, data retention laws, and transparency. Apparently they’ve been assigning...
View ArticlePseudonyms by Another Name: Identity Management in a Time of Surveillance
I was recently asked to contribute to a set of essays being assembled in honor of the Electronic Privacy Information Center‘s 20th anniversary. Here’s a draft: Pseudonyms by Another Name: Identity...
View ArticleTracking Protection Greatly Speeds Firefox
Firefox’s optional Tracking Protection reduces load time for top news sites by 44%. How to turn on Tracking Protection: In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter. The about:config “This...
View ArticleChange Your LastPass Master Password
We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network. In our investigation, we have found no evidence that encrypted user vault data was...
View ArticleShould I Surrender?
There’s this company that calls my office over and over. And over. And leaves messages asking me to go on their site and ‘claim my profile” that they have already concocted for me. It’s been going on...
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Windows 7/8/8.1 Is Spying on You. This Batch File Will Reduce It.
Concerned by sneaky updates to Windows telemetry on my Win 7 boxes … the object of which seems to be to degrade their privacy to a level equal to Window 10 minus the always-on eavesdropping of Cortana...
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