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Image Copyright © Stephen Wilson, 2018. Here, in Part 3 of my Rethinking Digital Identity series, I offer some vignettes which can take us towards a comprehensive data protection infostructure To fix identity fraud, we don’t need new and unfamiliar “reusable digital identity”. We should instead conserve the many official IDs now in widespread use... The post Stepping stones from Digital Identity…
Image Copyright © Stephen Wilson, 2018. Continuing my rethink of digital identity, here are some realisations that help form a fresh vision. It’s often said that “the Internet is missing an identity layer” but it’s really missing an authenticity layer. It s rare that we need to know who someone really is. Instead we usually need... The post Rethinking Digital Identity Part 2: Hot takes appeared…
Image credit: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Licence BY-SA 4.0. Part 1 Digital identity is a microcosm of bigger challenges in data sharing and cyber safety, including content provenance, Deep Fakes, and software supply chain integrity. If we can fix digital identification, then we can also solve these broader data quality problems. The Digital... The post Rethinking Digital…
If everybody knows that the captain lied, as Leonard Cohen sang, then whose problem is it? Everybody knows nobody reads the terms conditions before clicking OK. Too often this cynicism is turned against the humble end user as if they re at fault. But if platforms know their agreements have not been read and understood, yet... The post Age verification: Whose problem is it? appeared first on…
Infostructure patterns One of the hottest topics in the digital economy has for some time been data sharing. Many proposals are evolving in Open Banking and Open Data, alongside digital identity frameworks and more specific digital credentialling. I’m seeing verifiable credentials methods and thinking leaning towards verified data. “Infostructure” is a term for the orchestrated... The post…
I was delighted and honoured to be invited by Professor Katina Michael to provide input to the Social Cyber Institute Australia-India consultation on Technology Impact Assessment (TIA). Katina and I had a wide-ranging discussion about technology, data protection and digital transformation. A video recording is posted on YouTube and I am writing a few blogs... The post Making cyberspace healthier…
Not that I m a lawyer! But I m giving a short speech on AI regulation at the 2025 Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) Law and Technology Conference in Sydney, on July 11. Abstract The phenomenon of deep fakes, where Generative AI creates realistic still and moving images mimicking real individuals, is deeply troubling for actors, authors... The post Gen AI and Gen PI appeared first on Lockstep .
There s been a recent rush of excitement on LinkedIn about the vividness of the latest animations generated by image transformers. In particular, there’s a film clip with vividly realistic robots, in various states of terrible helplessness, bemoaning the prompts that led to their dire situations. I think it s just an amusing recursive take on the... The post When it comes to AI, do not suspend…
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) recently released the 2024 Payments System Board Annual Report. It shows that Australian consumers are rapidly becoming familiar with verifiable credentials in the form of smart phone digital wallets. The RBA continued to monitor the growth in mobile wallet card transactions Payments using mobile wallets reached 39 per cent... The post Australians becoming…
Some people think we re ready to get psychological counselling from AIs. But in a tragedy reported by Kevin Roose of the New York Times, a troubled teenager committed suicide after apparently falling in love with a chat bot. I have listened to Kevin Roose’s account of the suicide case on the NYT Hard Fork podcast.... The post Hello, I m a zombie. What brings you here today? appeared first on…