Measuring Users Without Identifying Them: Privacy-First Analytics and Identity
The question Dick Hardt was asking in 2005 — how much do you have to reveal to participate? — was aimed at login screens. You…
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The Cost of Getting Identity-Privacy Wrong: How GDPR Enforcement Actually Works
Most of the conversation about GDPR focuses on compliance: what you need to do, which boxes to check, whether your consent banner meets the standard.…
Your Data, Your Access: DSAR and Your Identity Record
In 2005, Dick Hardt stood at a conference podium and argued that you should control your own identity online. Not your bank. Not Yahoo. Not…
Consent as the New Login: What GDPR Consent Actually Requires
The moment Dick Hardt stood on stage at OSCON in 2005 and compared digital identity to a driver’s licence — something you own, you carry,…
Identity Resolution and Cross-Site Tracking: How You Get Re-Identified Online
In the Identity 2.0 era, the mental model was simple: you log in, the site knows who you are; you log out, it doesn’t. Identity…
From OpenID to Consent: How Online Identity Became a Privacy Problem
In 2005, a question was going around the identity community that felt almost philosophical: who owns your identity online? The answer, at the time, was…
No More Microsoft Dick, No More Identity 2.0
Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft. You can read more at Dick Hardt dot org. Now that I am not constrained by Microsoft policies,…
Identity, Privacy and Facebook
Any conversation about identity leads to a conversation about privacy. Identity by its nature is a very personal topic, and people are concerned about who…
Who makes more money than me?
Doing my usual Facebook maintenance tonight and I see another intriguing advertisement. The mix of the hot chicks and making more money got me wondering…
I want my stimulus: but is it Jeff or Kevin?
While getting my nightly dose of Facebook, I came across the following two ads on the same page: With both ads offering to help me…