Archive for January, 2003

Single digital identity? Probably not

Through a sequence of steps (JOHO to satterlee to JOHO) I arived to this undated thread with conversation about digital identity.  Having read through several emails it struck me that there is a big misunderstanding going on through the whole conversation - people are not talking about the same thing. The fact that I pointed out several […]

EU data protection and Passport

New EU working document on Passport is here (Thanks to Scott Loftesness for the link).
And I think it is a groundbreaking stuff.  But not exactly because of the Microsoft specific stuff.
Most of its content applies to any authentication service, including for example UK’s Government Gateway. As far as I know, it is for the first time […]

Online/offline fraud

Online (Finanical Times)
“International losses from online fraud, which reached $1.64bn over the past 12 months, almost doubled in the past two years, Gartner Group research indicates. Last year, e-sales totalled about $91bn.”
Offline (National Retail Security Survey)
“Relaying on data collected from calendar year 2000, the 120 responding firms reported an average  shrinkage rate equaling 1.80% of […]

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