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Jun 6, 2022

NFTs, ICOs and Ownership of Creative Ideas

In my March 2022 Biometric Update column, I explained that NFTs are a big deal because they are a unique digital identity layer native to the Ethereum blockchain. This is exciting because it can be used to track the ownership of digital items. …

Creativity

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NFTs, ICOs and Ownership of Creative Ideas
NFTs, ICOs and Ownership of Creative Ideas
Creativity

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May 11, 2022

Six insights about the Future of Biometrics

Biometrics are seen as a magic bullet to uniquely identify humans — but it is still new technology. Companies can experience growing pains and backlash due to incomplete thinking prior to implementation. Attackers do the hard work of finding every crack and vulnerability. Activists point out civil liberty and social…

Biometrics

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Six insights about the Future of Biometrics
Six insights about the Future of Biometrics
Biometrics

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Mar 21, 2022

Beyond the Metaverse Hype

Seven Reflections — On March 11, 2022, I was a panelist on The Metaverse: The Emperor’s New Clothes panel at the Vancouver International Privacy & Security Summit’s panel. Nik Badminton set the scene and led a discussion with myself, James Hursthouse and Kharis O’Connell. Here are seven reflections. Games are a playful way…

Metaverse

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Beyond the Metaverse Hype
Beyond the Metaverse Hype
Metaverse

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Published in In Present Tense

·Oct 5, 2021

Three Governments enabling digital identity interoperability

Since 2016, a growing number of digital identity experts have worked together to create privacy preserving, digitally native, trusted credentials, which enable the secure sharing of data from decentralized locations. U.S., …

Digital Identity

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Three Governments enabling digital identity interoperability
Three Governments enabling digital identity interoperability
Digital Identity

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Nov 18, 2020

On Being Self Less

The Supply Chain of You — As I dig into the Buddhist rabbit hole of emptiness, one thing comes up over and over — this idea of selflessness. As I struggled to understand the Buddhist description of selflessness, I realized I was limited by an existing indoctrination that had a very different (mis?) …

Buddhism

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On Being Self Less
On Being Self Less
Buddhism

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Jun 3, 2020

Updating the Moscow Rules

I’ve been researching/writing a new book on spies and espionage. Much of my research has been around British-US-Soviet espionage during the cold war. The cold war provided one of the most amazing espionage love stories. The competition between the Soviets and US unleashed an explosion of creativity that developed new…

Moscowrules

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The Internet 2020 Rules
The Internet 2020 Rules
Moscowrules

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May 27, 2020

A Call for Change at the CCG

Below is my self-nomination for one of three Co-Chairs of the Credentials Community Group at the W3C. Anyone can be a member of the group. Only members can vote in the upcoming election. I hope you will choose me to help take this community — and our work — to…

Leadership

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A Call for Change at the CCG
A Call for Change at the CCG
Leadership

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Published in In Present Tense

·Apr 9, 2020

Envisioning a Public-Private Partnership

The Role of Robust Government in Innovation — Greetings from the Covid-19 crisis. I’m sitting at home watching my country, The United States, try to get this pandemic under control, with some governments succeeding while others flounder. …

Government

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Envisioning a Public-Private Partnership
Envisioning a Public-Private Partnership
Government

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Published in In Present Tense

·Feb 4, 2020

How Supply Chain Enables Sustainable Fashion

An Interview with Susanna Schick — In conducting our recent research on digital identity and the supply chain, it quickly became apparent that different industries deal with similar supply chain problems in markedly different ways. We wanted to understand these differences and similarities in such manufacturing industries as apparel, food, and pharmaceuticals, as well as in…

Sustainable Fashion

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How Supply Chain Enables Sustainable Fashion
How Supply Chain Enables Sustainable Fashion
Sustainable Fashion

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Published in In Present Tense

·Jan 28, 2020

Guanxi over IP

The Role of Counterfeiters in Innovation — For our recent report “Sensors, Identifiers, and Digital Twins: Tracking Identity on the Supply Chain,” we delved into the world of counterfeit manufacturing and supply-chain fraud. One recurring theme was the assumption that counterfeits are invariably bad. And indeed, our research turned up a number of examples to support this…

Counterfeit

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Guanxi over IP
Guanxi over IP
Counterfeit

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Heather Vescent

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President, The Purple Tornado, a strategic intelligence company tracking the future.

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