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Personal Information for Sale at $14?!
A frightening article I read on Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog. According to a Symantec report, the going rates for buying and selling people’s identity information in the Uni…
About Identity 2.0, Which Entrusts Customers with ID Management for ASP Services
Sxip demonstrated federated authentication at Dreamforce (a Salesforce.com trade show) (see the article). This is a framework in which users are authenticated somewhere else and th…
Biometric Authentication at Bank ATMs
There was news that they would support both palm and finger authentication, but I wonder whether that is a good idea. Have they properly considered the drawbacks of biometric authe…
Ping Identity Releases Beta Version of SAML 2.0 Server
In March, SAML 2.0 was adopted as a standard. Ping Identity has released the first product to support it. (IDG) On July 6, identity management software vendor Ping Identity release…
4 of Bank Card PINs Are Birth Dates (Financial Services Agency Survey)
On the 22nd, the Financial Services Agency announced the results of a survey on damage from fraudulent withdrawals using counterfeit cash cards. According to the results, 41% of th…
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Liable for ¥6 million in Damages over Negligent Identity Verification
A lawsuit concerning an incident in which a seal and a bankbook were stolen from a home, leading to the withdrawal of ¥8.5 million from an ordinary deposit and ¥6 million from a ti…
XDI Meeting
Today again, there was an XDI meeting from 8 a.m. For 4 hours in the morning, I led the presentation of a proposal for the specification, and its overall direction was approved. Da…
Digital ID World Opens
The 3rd Digital Identity World opened in Denver, Colorado. The first day featured tutorials by the Trusted Computing Group and other events. On the same day, the Early Registration…
What Digital Identity Requires
Recently, all kinds of articles about Digital Identity have been circulating. In this blog, I plan to jot down whatever comes to mind, ranging from meta-level questions such as wha…