Privacy, privacy. Interesting word: strange enough, I don't think we have a decent correspondent in Italian. On one side you have titanic efforts for protecting it: think U-Prove, an entirely new kind of cryptography that actually prevents linkage (see Kim's post about it; more details to come). On the other you have attempts to redefine it, like in the case of the lawmakers proposing to outlaw anonymous posting to websites . IMHO those are both signs of the times. Subjects & service providers, we all need to learn how to live with the augmented scope that our omnidirectional identity. Needless to say, I root for the understand-the-issue-and-innovate-for-solving-it approach... ;-)
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