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Twitter to Automatically Remove Apps’ DM Access
According to an article in TechCrunch, Twitter is finally taking action to make OAuth access permissions more granular. According to the article, the consent screen will change fro…
Build a Disaster Victim Database and Issue Disaster Victim Certificates!
In view of the fact that many municipal offices have ceased functioning due to the off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake (Great East Japan Earthquake), the Residents System Di…
Interview with Poland’s WP TV
This is an interview I gave to Poland’s WP TV. It is about OpenID. Watching it like this, my English really is poor…. I need to practice. To make just a small excuse, I…
Elected Chair of the OpenID Foundation in the United States
At the OpenID Foundation in the United States’ 2011, 1st board meeting, which just concluded, I was elected Chair. Though I still have much to learn, I intend to do my very best ov…
Twitter Renga (collaborative linked verse)
At the after-party following a GLOCOM study session, we composed a Twitter renga, among other things. Links to the original tweets and such can be found around here ↓ http://twilog…
A Heartless Society and Numbering Systems: The Dangers of Entity Resolution in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (2)
In the previous installment, I discussed how combining the Internet with a system of universally used numbers (universal identifiers) could turn everyone into an Inspector Javert,…
Media Interviews Really Are Difficult
The other day, while talking with Professor Suzuki of Niigata University, we agreed that media interviews really are difficult. This was our reaction after seeing an article in the…
The 3th Masao Horibe Information Law Study Group
Beginning at 12/19 12:30 in a conference room at the National Center of Sciences, I will speak in the following session. 14:10–14:50 (40 minutes) Report 2 “The National ID System a…
The Merciless Society and the Numbering System: The Dangers of Record Linkage in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables
Humans are creatures that forget. Forgetting leads to forgiveness, and people act on that premise. But the Internet does not forget. A person who never forgets, like Inspector Jave…
E-Woman Roundtable: “Do You Support Introducing a National Numbering System?”
E-Woman’s roundtable has begun. → Here This leading question is not good. For something like this to be meaningful, a vote must be taken after fairly presenting the views of…