Interesting Stuff

The midata programme, part of the UK Government’s consumer empowerment strategy, announced a review and consultation of the programme to date and of plans going forward.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published its latest iteration on personal data; a report by BCG called Rethinking Personal Data: Strengthening Trust.

WEF activity in this area helps the whole agenda. Even if you don’t understand what WEF…

Here’s some powerful stuff from Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for online privacy.

It’s worth reading the whole speech, but here are some highlights:

We’re delighted to see the Cabinet Office announcement mydata initiative, and to be part of the consortia moving things forward. And well done to the coalition government for delivering on the pledges made back here.

A very interesting paper by Ross Anderson entitled Can We Fix the Security Economics of Federated Authentication? is introduced in his blog. The full paper is located here. He reviews four current approaches…

The UK Information Commissioner says 80% of the population is now concerned about protecting their personal information online… Publishing new research to coincide with European Data Protection Day, Chris Graham and Justice Minister…

Facebook’s new Messaging service provides a neat summary of where we’ve got to so far on the online journey…

In one way, Facebook Messaging is a good step forward. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the thinking behind it like this: