From the Trustworthy Computing Blog: Posted By: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing A key topic when it comes to security is identity. But, the laws of identity tell us “the Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to…Since this essential...

Today, I’m happy to announce we are releasing Building Global Trust Online Volume 2: Policymaker Guide to Privacy, Safety, and Security at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C. Complimentary copies are available for conference attendees...

Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, writes on the Building Windows 8 blog about Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID, including a section on "Privacy and Security" below: With Windows 8, we introduce the optional capability to sign in to your PC with...

Chris Stetkiewicz writes on the Security Tips & Talk Blog : We recently received this email: “My Hotmail account was hacked and taken over by the classic ‘I'm in London and I’ve been mugged’ scam . It appears that the hacker has changed the basic verification information...

An important update from the Microsoft Security Response Center : This blog post was updated Sept. 5, 2011 below. Microsoft’s investigation into the scope and impact of the DigiNotar compromise has continued over the holiday weekend. We’ve now confirmed that spoofed certificates for...

Microsoft's Kim Cameron responds on his Identity Blog to recent criticism of the concept of identity federation : in a recent piece at The Federal Circle , Earl Smith II, managing partner, comes out “all guns blazing” against identity federation and the “weird and wonderful”...

Last week I told you about the Privacy Identity Innovation 2010 (Pii2010) Conference in downtown Seattle. Among the highlights of the conference two keynotes by Microsoft presenters, including Kim Cameron , Chief Architect of Identity in the Microsoft Identity and Security division; and Marc Davis ,...

Kim Cameron of Microsoft writes on his Identity Blog: Non-Personal Information - like where you live? The notion that location information tied to random identifiers is not personally identifiable information is total hogwash. Posted on Tuesday 24 August 2010 Last week I gave a presentation...

Microsoft's Kim Cameron writes on his Identity Blog : Using Consumer Identities for Business Interactions Posted on Saturday 10 July 2010 Mike Jones writes about an “identity mashup” that drives home a really important lesson: the organizational and technical walls that used to...

Microsoft's Kim Cameron writes on his Identity blog : And now for something refreshingly different: an innovative company that is doing identity right. I’m talking about a British outfit called Touch2Id . Their concept is really simple. They offer young people a smart card that can be...

Angus Logan writes on the Windows Live Blog : There are over 500 million Windows Live IDs that are used every month. That is a lot of users who can sign into web sites. In addition to base level authentication you can also pre-fill registration forms with things such as the user’s email address...

The report understands the spectrum of use cases and specifically calls out the need for identity solutions to be privacy enhancing and voluntary for the public ...read more

§ 3121. General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace device use; exception ...read more

Conor: Google has clearly stepped into the arena of doing something that could be detrimental to the user's privacy ...read more

49% of testers said privacy and security concerns were the top reason they don’t use check-in services more often ...read more

Google's new report on its activities states, "All available MAC addresses are... written to disk for frames transmitted over both encrypted and unencrypted wireless networks." ...read more

All the brooms have started dancing. I wonder if Mickey will get out of this one? ...read more

Collection of the MAC addresses of phones and laptops is especially worrisome ...read more

Once you have snooped peoples' MAC addresses, and put them into a database linking them to a street address, you have dramatically changed the way network identifiers work. ...read more

Guest Blog Post from Dan Schutzer, CTO Financial Services Technology Group , Division of the Financial Services Roundtable: The issue of identity impersonation and identity-related crimes has been a long-standing issue dating back before the dawn of the Internet. It has even been the subject of movies...

Kim Cameron, the Chief Architect of Identity in the Identity and Security Division at Microsoft writes on his Identity Blog: Earlier this week I presented the Identity Keynote at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in LA. The slide deck is here , and the video is here . After...

Microsoft's Kim Cameron on his Identity Blog: Back from vacation and catching up on some blogs I found this piece by Felix Gaehtgens at Kuppinger Cole in Germany: A good year ago, Microsoft acquired an innovative company called U-Prove. That company, founded by visionary Stephan Brandt, had...

Here's an update from the Windows Live Group on integrating Windows Live ID with OpenID from the Windows Live blog: Many people have asked recently about the status of the Windows Live® ID community technology preview (CTP) OpenID endpoints, so here is a quick update. We gathered a lot of great...

Check out the newest resource on Microsoft's Channel 9, The Id Element : Welcome to The Id Element , your one-stop shop for all things identity on Channel9! In this page you will find all kinds of material on Identity and Access Control : weekly interviews with product team members, developer how...

From Kim Cameron's blog : Today I am posting a new paper called, Proposal for a Common Identity Framework: A User-Centric Identity Metasystem . Good news: it doesn’t propose a new protocol! Instead, it attempts to crisply articulate the requirements in creating a privacy-protecting identity...