Speaking at AFCEA Identity Assurance Conference
I’m on a panel discussing the implications of large databases of information on the identity management/assurance problem. The concern is that as you have large databases like national ID databases, credit report databases, medical records, etc, and you want to share information, how do you handle the identity management problems. Sharing is important because it enables new uses of the information. You would like to delegate access to information to services and agents. However, you also want to meet privacy and secrecy objectives. Technologies like oauth are in this space, although I think that this conference would not be interested in that particular technology.
I have not been thinking that much about some of the problems in this space before preparing for this panel. However, it has been a lot of fun to consider and I think there are some very interesting challenges in this space.