Archive for March, 2003

Sentient Stories

When wading through my backlog of weblog posts and mailing list emails, I come across two identity related scenarios. In the first one Phil Windley blogs Bill Smith’s talk at Digital ID Summit:

“Bill starts off by posing a scenario where your car tells you that a gas station with the brand of gas you like to […]

Europe and US on privacy: different and same

Interesting paper on privacy (or data protection, whatever you chose), by Stephen Kobrin from upenn, which esentially supports my suspicions that
a) the reason I don’t understand the debate on anonymity that’s going on at some US blogs is not that I am thick, but rather that the concept of privacy is understood in fundamentally […]

Is DRM ever going to work?

LawMeme: “The true awesome difficulty of the DRM problem first starts to become apparent during Brian LaMacchia’s tutorial presentation. We’re accustomed to thinking about ‘digital rights’ as reasonably simple things: ‘I can play this song ten times, but not copy it.’ But that’s just one loop of the Loch Ness Monster. After all, the record […]

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