EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Identity Management

Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency

ckeller — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:21:03 -0600

Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. Just 3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it and 74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice.

Indeed, most internet users are not concerned about the amount of information available about them online, and most do not take steps to limit that information. Fully 60% of internet users say they are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, the majority of online adults (61%) do not feel compelled to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online.

In addition to providing national telephone survey data, this report includes quotes from online survey respondents as well as experts in the fields of privacy, online identity management and search.

Five Quick Tips for Integrated ID Management

ckeller — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:55:45 -0500

The author provides lessons from Pfizer's ID management effort.

OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

ckeller — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:57:18 -0500

"OpenID is a single sign-on system for the Internet which puts people in charge. OpenID is a user-centric technology which allows a person to have control over how their Identity is both managed and used online. By being decentralised there is no single server with which every OpenID-enabled service and every user must register. Rather, people make their own choice of OpenID Provider, the service that manages their OpenID. "

Identity Management Conference Report

drupal — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:53:49 -0600

The Identity Management Conference was held June 5-6, 2006, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Digital Hollywood Mulls Changing Content Rights

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:06:07 -0500

Accenture and others are pushing digital rights management software that would identify the consumer rather than the device, so people can pay once and put the content on as many devices as they wish.

Jabber creator launches online identity project

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:15:43 -0500

MicroID system addresses info-security issues by giving users a way to authoritatively prove that they are the authors of blog postings and Web sites.

Setting the foundation for identity management

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:19:54 -0500

New Data Center security projects increasingly center on building a strong identity-management base.

Sun pairing tools for physical, logical access

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:26:55 -0500

Sun this week plans to add management and other software to its identity platform so that users can converge access to physical and logical resources onto a single smart card.

The hidden challenges of federated identity

drupal — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:14:10 -0600

Federation is the logical goal of identity infrastructures, but achieving it takes more than just technology. For years, companies have kept stores of identity information about employees, customers, and partners. These databases and directories are critical components of a company's identity infrastructure. But as businesses push to create new products and increase productivity, they have discovered that they often must cooperate to provide the services their customers and employees demand.

Researchers develop new digital rights technology

drupal — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:03:17 -0600

Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed a new digital rights management technology that they said will help organizations better protect multimedia content from unauthorized copying and distribution.