Foundation of Trust
WRITTEN ON Saturday, September 5th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
A Mitch Kapor Tweet points me to the US-based Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, and their manifesto for restoring trust in elections. These problems are very bad in the States, and half-baked and inadequate US “solutions” got exported in a characteristically aggressive manner to the UK and elsewhere. So it’s heartening to see Americans of […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, September 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
Having dumped controversial former chief executive Wally O’Dell in 2005Diebold has now finally dumped its e-voting unit. This was a deeply unpleasant history, and the new buyer Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is far from Ideal.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
(from The Times): There is now “CCTV on every corner”; traffic cameras track car numberplates; credit and debit cards reflect movement and use; satellites track mobile phones; and there are “vast databases”, he writes…“And then we have the ‘toolkit’ issued to teachers for the purpose of the ‘Prevent agenda’ by which pupils’ behaviour and thinking […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Here’s a seven laws of identity poster from Kim’s blog. Cool. I wish they were plastered all over St James’ Park tube.
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
This in from Scotland Public sector organisations should avoid creating large centralised databases of personal information and keep clear audit trails of how identity data is used, under new proposals published today. Leads into their consultation on privacy (see below). The draft privacy principles are worth repeating: # Proving identity or entitlement: people should only […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, August 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, What do we want?
Blythe writes to point out a new Scottish government consultation on identity and privacy. Though there’s a limit to Scotland’s freedom of action on these issues, that seems somehow to act as a spur to them working harder to understand these issues in a contempory manner. So well worth responding to I’d have thought.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, We told you so..., What do we want?
Wowser. Kable’s Philippe Martin (who developed the original ID costing model on which all sensible industry estimates and also the LSE’s estimates were based) reckons cancelling the Benighted ID Scheme will still save £3.1bn. A detailed analysis of the National Identity Scheme’s costs for UK citizens by Kable suggests that the £4.95bn cost over 10 […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
I reckon Drummond Reed over in the US is showing us the way to go in the new Open ID/ICF white paper(Info Card Foundation press release) : Entitled Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government, the paper explains the approach both foundations are taking to enable open, Internet-scale trust networks using OpenID and Information Cards. “Open […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, August 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Oh blimey (Guardian) Chief constables across England and Wales have been told to ignore a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights and carry on adding the DNA profiles of tens of thousands of innocent people to a national DNA database. Senior police officers have also been “strongly advised” that it is “vitally […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, August 7th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
In describing the NSA’s ambitious construction of a $1.5bn 1m sq ft data centre, James Bamford invokes Luis Borges’ “Library of Babel”: ..a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world’s knowledge is stored, but not a single word understood. In this “labyrinth of […]
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