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Transparency of usage of personal data: the need for a HIPAA-like regime

Ray Campbell hits the ball out of the park again with his awesome suggestion in his blog: we need a HIPAA-like regime for the privacy of personal data.  As a mental exercise, Ray has gone through the HIPAA document and substituted “individually identifiable health information” to “individually identifiable personal information“. The red-lined doc can also be Read More

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Vision and Principles of IDESG

People ask me all the time about the vision of the IDESG.  The following provides a very useful summary (from the original NPO document): “Individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use, and interoperable identity solutions to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation.”   Identity Solutions will be: Privacy-enhancing Read More

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NSTIC IDESG “layers”

Today at the 3rd Plenary of the IDESG, the Chair of the IDESG  (Bob Blakley) presented a high level vision slide of what the IDESG should be working on. Its a very good slide for the purposes of uniting the work of the IDESG.  Each industry area (or stakeholder group) would end-up with its own Read More

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On the survival NSTIC Privacy Standing Committee

Aaron Titus writes an interesting piece based on his analysis of the recent proposal from Trent Adams (PayPal) to modify the NSTIC governance rules. The abolition of the NSTIC Privacy Standing Committee may have unforeseen impact on the acceptance of the whole NSTIC Identity Ecosystem idea, notably from the privacy front. During the last decade — Read More

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NSTIC Identity Ecosystem Steering Group

Today NSTIC started its 2 day Ecosystem Steering Group meeting in Chicago.  Never thought that dialing-in all day would be so tiring. Glad that the group (of about 300 people, half in-person and half virtual) got over the initial confusion about voting for the candidates and dealing with proposed changes to the Charter and By Read More