My Digital FootPrint

I was very excited when I saw this and then kind of worried when I saw the scare focussed graphics and alas it did not deliver for me.  Just simply telling me what I told “map my Shadow” in a very poor table format was not impressive and the summary was just not informative. The shadow tracers kit has some useful tools but most of them are the scare the pants out of your without any real context. However “ Lost in Small Print ” was cleaver.

monster of a report http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_359_en.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report presents the results of the largest survey ever conducted regarding citizen’s behaviours and attitudes concerning identity management, data protection and privacy. It represents the attitudes and behaviours of Europeans on this subject. The main findings of the survey are the following:   74% of the Europeans see disclosing personal information as an increasing part of modern life.   Information considered as personal is, above all, financial information (75%), medical information (74%), and national identity numbers or cards and passports (73%).    Social networking and sharing sites users are more likely to disclose their name (79%), photo (51%) and nationality (47%). Online shoppers’  actual online disclosure of personal information mainly involves their names (90%), home addresses (89%), and mobile numbers (46%).   The most important reason for...

  The level of identification can move from the simple to the complex, but where is the proof that the more complex is needed for all services?

Looking forward to http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012  this week and discussing/ debating with Doc Searls , Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Drummond Reed , Connect.Me Marcel van Galen , Qiy Scott David , K&L Gates LLP Prof. Dr. Kevin Cox , Edentiti Tony Fish , My Digital Footprint On the Life Management Platforms track, specifically “ Giving Individuals Control and Knowledge of their Personal Information held by Others - What are the Consequences? ”

London Telco-OTT & Future of Voice workshops April 26-27 The first day is Future of Voice (more details from Martin can be found here .)  Day 2 is a  workshop specifically on Telco-OTT services.   There's a lot of rhetoric about how operators should "deal with OTT", but Dean is the only person to publish and speak specifically about how operators can and should become OTT players themselves Dean’s recent report   where he examines more than 100 different telco Internet-based offers, spanning a wide variety of service segments, and have advised operators around the world on opportunities and risks.  The cost per delegate is £700 for one day, or £1000 for both days, plus 20% UK VAT. Registration http://www.amiando.com/FoV5.html   Future of Voice Day 1 (April 26th) is an evolution of our previous workshop format on the evolution of telephony, voice services, new communications business models and hot topics around personal connect...

Pew Internet Life project produced a report that found that people are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks . Source: ZoneAlarm has digested this information into ….