Archive for the ‘Identity’ Category

Stockholm: Identity management

One of the more interesting breakout workstreams was on ‘the trust cluster’ – which unfortunately was not the one I was in.  I did though have a very interesting conversation with one of the presenters in that group. Malcolm Crompton, who was until recently Australia’s privacy commissioner and is now the MD of an outfit [...]

Identity paradox

Checking a person against a biometric is a way of establishing their identity.  So checking them against two biometrics ought to establish their identity with greater confidence. Wrong.  As it turns out, in some cases, using a second biometric can significantly increase the error rate: Suppose weak Biometric 1 operates with both of its error [...]