Talking Identity

Are Social Networks the biggest threat to User Privacy?

By Nishant Kaushik on April 6, 2009 5:37 PM

Privacy advocates have long been raising a hue and cry about the negative impact social networking sites are having on privacy. For the most part, the glare has been on the poor security practices and privacy controls of these sites....

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International Data Privacy Day: Real Problems, Real Solutions

By Nishant Kaushik on January 28, 2009 2:59 PM

Wednesday, January 28 is International Data Privacy Day, honoring the anniversary of the Council of Europe Convention on Data Protection (No. 108), the most important international law for privacy. The purpose of this convention is to secure in the...

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On Anonymity, Pseudonymity and Personas

By Nishant Kaushik on January 12, 2009 10:18 PM

One of the online forums I participate in is commonly referred to as the Identity Gang (it is now part of identity commons). An interesting conversation took place last week on the topic of anonymity and privacy. The conversation did...

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