Category Archives: Civil liberties

Open identity for the government

Cross-posted to the OpenID blog. Today in collaboration with Vivek Kundra, the nation’s first CIO, we are announcing a pilot program intended to enable individual citizens to login to government websites with their existing accounts — without revealing their password or personally identifying information — using OpenID and InfoCard technologies. This is an important step [...]

Thoughts on Opera Unite

I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe. On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down [...]

TheSocialWeb.tv #25: “An ‘Open’ Letter to the Obama Administration”

Last Friday, Joseph, John and I recorded episode #25 of TheSocialWeb.tv. Besides shout outs to 97bottles.com and Janrain for their stats on third-party account login usage, we discussed how the Obama administration might better make use of or leverage elements of the Open Stack — specifically OpenID.