Recently, EEMA held fireside event on Decentralised Identity, do people really want to be in charge of their ID? It was a well attended session with good discussion and lots of perspectives from the panellists. But at the end of the event, David Alexander, Chief Executive of Mydex CIC noticed a sense of frustration from…
We are the custodians of our own identity in the real-world, so why not in the digital world? When passwords are easily forgotten and backing up of data is not a habit, the question is whether it is in our best interests to be in control and do we really want to. These issues were…
Our digital identity is now more exposed than ever thanks to the proliferation of smart devices collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT). While the user may believe their access credentials are securely stored on the home network, the addition of smart ‘things’ onto that self-same network poses a significant risk to that data….
One of the hotly debated topics in the world of identity is whether a decentralised (otherwise known as self-sovereign) approach is the right way forward in the digital world. EEMA has been centre of this debate with the EEMA Identity Blog, and this has been an important platform for the elite of our sector to…
Two buzzwords often heard in identity today are self-sovereign identity and distributed identity. The reason for considering new models for identity is, among other things, to avoid a single point of dependency and to put the user is in control of his or her identity and decide how much information to share with whom. It’s…
A great many years ago, long before the Internet, the media theorist Marshall McLuhan said that in the always-on interconnected future there would be new ways to be evil that we hadn’t thought of before. This prediction seems to have come true in spades at the intersection of social media and democracy, where Twitter, Facebook and…
Louis C.K, an outstanding comedian, once said: “We don’t need to keep making porn … If we stopped, no one would run out … ” Jokes aside, he’s right. Forget porn — thousands of books, movies and songs come out each day, let alone all sorts of news articles and press releases. Now this is…
In his first EEMA Identity Blog post, Kim Cameron, Identity Architect at Microsoft Corp USA, explains how the characteristics of Blockchain can be very valuable to identity, but identity must use Blockchain in a way that is consistent with the laws of identity. He shares his view that the Blockchain can be used to organise…