Author Archives: Peter

Interesting story over at The Verge about publishing industry opposition to Amazon trying to muscle in to own a proposed new .book top-level domain So why are Amazon attracting all the flack? The real culprit, in my opinion, is the … Continue reading →

Time was when you couldn’t always guarantee hot running water in hotels in parts of France or Southern Europe. It came with the territory, so to speak. You knew there were were areas what this was a distinct possibility. So … Continue reading →

How difficult should it be? You walk into a store. Pick the product you want. Pay for it. Walk out the store a happy consumer. Vendor presumably happy too. Unless you want to buy a Nokia 920 phone that is. … Continue reading →

Being an obsessive reader and interpreter of signs, it’s natural that I’m also an election night addict. Yesterday was no exception, a psephelogist’s dream. The night belonged to President Obama but a hat-tip nonetheless to the dogged band of professional … Continue reading →

Ever since I started getting interested in this subject and started writing about it, I had in my pea-brained mind a vague vision of some technology-enabled future in which people could exercise greater, if not total, control over “their data”. … Continue reading →

I took part last week in my very first Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), notes from which are being finalised on a dedicated Wiki. A theme that surfaced a couple of times was around the issue of the relationship between a … Continue reading →

My first Internet Identity Workshop this week. First morning busy getting going; helping out Dawn Jutla with her presentation of the new OASIS technical committee, “Privacy by Design for Software Engineers”; and attending a regular conference call for the Management … Continue reading →

An innocent enough conversation thread discussing issues around privacy as part of the IDESG effort has thrown into stark relief some difficult questions about core terminology being used. In line with common convention, the ubiquitous “user” appeared in many diagrams. … Continue reading →

This week I am in Chicago for the kick-off meeting to establish the organization charged with delivering President Obama’s “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” (NSTIC). Many of my readers will now that I was nominated to be a candidate to Chair … Continue reading →