“There is no question that today’s structure limits innovation – as there are limited marketplaces,” says Tim Enwall, founder of Tendril, consumer energy management system innovator.
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I first saw this initiative at Kim Cameron’s Identity blog where he talks of Microsoft’s announcement at the RSA conference about Minimal Disclosure, End to End trust and Claims based Identity system.

The service has been implemented in Germany in partnership with Fraunhofer FOKUS – who are good friends (I have been invited to speak at FOKUS events for a few years now and I highly recommend it for some cutting edge thinking).
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I have always been interested in Privacy, Security and Reputation from a research perspective. The Tech Policy blog has a good overview of the basics of Data privacy law to commemorate Data privacy day . They start by saying that ‘the United States doesn’t have a single, overarching data privacy law. Instead, data privacy is regulated by many different statutes and rules at the federal and state levels.’
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Interoperability between ICT systems in the public sector is an important policy objective for the European Union. It is regarded an important means to solve conventional issues relating to digital communications between independent organizations and entities and enable seamless and cost-effective delivery of public services. Hopes are that is should also facilitate cross-border mobility. It is thus at the heart of the EU policy to create an integrated market and better European public services.

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