Who owns my medical (identity) records?

Monday, July 20th, 2009

In the U.S.A. the "healthcare reform debate is raging in our congress and on main street. What is missing is intelligent conversation around how the Laws of Identity should be applied to medical records/health records. Maybe I could recoup some of my out-of-pocket costs for healthcare if I ...

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Identity for the smart grid

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The Smart Grid screams for a User-Centric Identity Metasystem but instead we get a brain dead unsecure mess. If you haven't figured it out by now, I have some eclectic interests and at some level they all do interconnect.  At least I THINK they interconnect. I've a sensor network in my home ...

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Login with you favorite ID

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

You can now login to comment on KM News posts using your favorite digitial ID - AOL, facebook, Google, Windows Live ID, Yahoo or OpenID. This really cool capability comes courtesy of RPX from JanRain.

Posted in Federated Collaboration, Identity Management, Site News, Technology, Trust, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »

OpenID’s future

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I read with interest this morning Dave Kearn's last missive from Network World - Has OpenID lost its mojo.  I share Dave's concern about OpenID, but I don't think its lost its mojo.  There are plenty of site using OpenID and it is spreading.  Yes, there are lots of people ...

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