Identity, Society and the Law
Assurance, regulation, national schemes and failure. The perishable volume, dated deliberately so it can be revised on its own.
How Sure Are You
You will be able to explain why one "security level" cannot describe identity confidence, and name the three things it tries to compress.
12,169 words/53 min read49Know Your Customer
You will be able to explain why a bank asks for your documents, and name the international body whose rules made it do so.
11,987 words/52 min read50A Billion People and One Number
You will be able to say exactly what an Aadhaar number is, what it legally is not, and describe the enrolment process step by step.
12,005 words/52 min read51Europe's Wallet
You will be able to explain what the European Union has legislated, naming the regulation, its date, and the single obligation it places on every member…
12,071 words/52 min read52Britain's Approach
You will be able to explain what the Identity Cards Act 2006 actually created, name the register at its centre, and say precisely how and when it was…
12,000 words/52 min read53Credentials You Carry
You will be able to describe the three-party model of issuer, holder and verifier, and say precisely which arrow in the old two-party model it removes.
12,003 words/52 min read54Proving How Old You Are
You will be able to define age verification, age estimation, age inference and age assurance exactly as the law and the standards use them, and cite the…
12,405 words/54 min read55Identity and Privacy Law
You will be able to say exactly what makes a piece of information personal data under Article 4(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation, apply the…
14,938 words/65 min read56The Right Not to Be Identified
You will be able to explain why the cost of identifying a person, rather than the law about it, was the thing that used to limit surveillance, and what…
15,496 words/67 min read57When Identity Is Stolen
You will be able to place any real fraud case into one of four categories - account takeover, new-account fraud, synthetic identity fraud, or first-party…
13,886 words/60 min read58Breaches That Taught Us Something
You will be able to narrate the 2015 OPM intrusions in order, name the two intruders that investigators labelled X1 and X2, and explain why the…
13,755 words/60 min read59Designing an Identity System
You will be able to list the eleven decisions that fix the shape of any identity system, put them in the order that makes each one cheapest to get right,…
15,290 words/66 min read60What Breaks and What It Costs
You will be able to name the five ways an identity system fails - false accept, false reject, exclusion, leak and lock-out - define each one in a single…
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