Archive for August, 2006

Digital identity – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Digital identity – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Digital identity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Digital identity refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people’s experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. Digital identity also has another common usage as the digital representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject.

Wikipedia is a wonderful resource and also makes for quite interesting reading on a wide variety of topics. This article on Digital Identity comes across as pedantic and theoretical which reflects the difficulty of introducing the many complex concepts associated with understanding Digital Identity. It seems that we are in the early days of even agreeing on the concepts let alone establishing practical implementations that people can naturally relate to. A lot has been done but in my opinion this will continue to be a rapidly evolving field for some time to come.

The Pig and the Bucket

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

A little story for kids about sharing related to Digital Rights Management.

http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html

Also check out the Crow that could Fly story on Patent Abuse for kids and CEOs.

http://www.dustrunners.com/dl/Crow_Who_Could_Fly.pdf

Identity-theft scam hits close to home

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Statistics show identity theft is becoming more prevalent with many different types that are increasingly more sophisticated.
This one targets job seekers.

Identity-theft scam catches 100 people in net:

Identity-theft scam catches 100 people in net
Police display fraudulent driver’s licences, SIN cards, credit cards

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