Phil Windley

APRIL 19, 2022

Summary: John Oliver's Last Week Tonight took on data brokers and surveillance capitalism in a recent show and he did his usual great job of explaining a serious topic in an entertaining way. Surveillance capitalism is a serious subject that can be hard to explain, let alone make interesting. Definitely worth the watch.

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Phil Windley

MAY 24, 2022

Reward participation, not just capital. platforms that treat their participants as mere customers (at best) or profit from surveillance capitalism (at worst). Tags: web3 freedom agency ssi. Incorporate initiatives that benefit the disadvantaged. Let's consider each of these in turn.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

Website Promising 'Discreet' Marital Affairs Gets Hacked - Nextgov.com - Nextgov NextGov (Yesterday) - NextgovWebsite Promising 'Discreet' Marital Affairs Gets Hacked - Nextgov.comNextgovAshley Madison—the dating website whose tag line reads, “Life is short. Have an affair”—finds itself in an awkward position after hackers managed.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Enhanced User Trust & Reputation: By collecting only essential data, organizations can build trust with users, gaining a competitive edge in a privacy-conscious market that is increasingly growing tired of the abuses of surveillance capitalism. Tags: zero+data identity verifiable+credentials zero+trust

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This has been a boon to surveillance capitalism. Tags: identity ssi tokens surveillance+capitalism relationships. Traditionally, we've done that with accounts and identifying, using authentication factors, who is connecting. Photo Credit: Tickets from Clint Hilbert (Pixabay).

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Surveillance is profitable. Tags: identity ssi relationships pseudonymity. Related: Ephemeral Relationships —Many of the relationships we have online don’t have to be long-lived. Ephemeral relationships, offering virtual anonymity, are technically possible without a loss of functionality or convenience. Why don’t they exist?

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Phil Windley

MAY 25, 2021

Surveillance —Unfortunately, identity systems also provide the means of tracking individuals across transactions for purposes of gathering data about them. So, how did we get surveillance and it's attendant affects on natural anonymity as an unintended, but oft-exploited feature of administrative digital identity systems?

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