Message #6292

[Mark]

Trusted Identity Plan Unleashed

The goal of the strategy is to protect privacy, fight identity theft and fraud, drive economic growth by driving business online and create a platform for new Web services, said a White House administration official. User names and passwords are no longer good enough and potentially pose a national security risk. In order to secure online identities, something more is needed–be it a smart card, USB token, mobile device or something else. The government would work on setting standards and facilitating the process while the private sector takes the lead in deploying the credentials and systems used to read them. “Our goal is to have a credential that would work anywhere online. If consumers want to have more than one they can,” said a White House official.

http://www.digitalidnews.com/2011/06/09/trusted-identity-plan-unleashed


Is "Self-tracking" The Secret To Living Better?

Do you know the number of miles you've driven over the last five years? Every meal you've eaten? The number of browser tabs you've had open during the day compared with the amount of sleep you had that night? That's the kind of data collected by the new generation of self-trackers who descended on the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, for the first annual Quantified Self conference over Memorial Day weekend. About 400 hackers, programmers, entrepreneurs and health professionals came from across the globe, united by a desire to collect as much data as possible about themselves in order to make informed decisions regarding health, productivity and happiness.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/