Liberty Alliance Privacy in an Online, Web 2.0 World Webcast Series
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the 2008 Privacy in Perspective webcast series. The webcasts examine online privacy issues from both a consumer and enterprise perspective and present potential solutions for better privacy in the Web 2.0 world. Hosted by leaders in the technology, public policy and media sectors, the Wednesday, April 19, 23 and 30 webcasts begin at 8:00am US PT (3:00 UTC) and are open to the public.
High-profile privacy-related incidents in the private and public sectors continue to bring personal data management — and the associated risks — sharply to the forefront of public awareness. The Privacy in Perspective series has been designed to shine the expert’s spotlight on some of the less visible privacy issues which lie behind those attention-grabbing headlines. The webcasts cover issues facing users of online services, social networking and Web 2.0 application providers, in an open format to drive discussions about how to solve these global challenges. Highlights from the agenda include:April 16 — Robin Wilton, Corporate Architect for Federated Identity, Sun Microsystems and co-chair of the Liberty Alliance Public Policy Group, will review findings and next steps from the ongoing series of global Liberty Alliance privacy summits which bring together a diverse set of privacy stakeholders from the commercial, academic, legal and public sectors. Published findings from the Liberty Alliance privacy summit series held so far are available at http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/public_community/privacy_summits
April 23 — Phil Hunt, Director Security Standards, Oracle Identity Management, and lead developer of the IGF open source project at OpenLiberty.org, will provide an overview of the privacy benefits of the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF), a policy-based organizational framework being standardized within Liberty Alliance and implemented in open source at OpenLiberty.org to protect personal identity information (PII) within and across enterprise networks. An overview of the IGF initiative is available at http://projectliberty.org/liberty/strategic_initiatives/identity_governance
April 30 — Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, technology editors with USA Today, will review highlights from their new book Zero Day Threat, which discusses the immediate and long-term security and privacy risks associated with online transactions, social networks and Web 2.0 technologies. The Zero Day Threat prologue with input from the authors is available at http://zerodaythreat.com/
“The Privacy in Perspective series will raise awareness and drive new discussions about the many — and all too often overlooked — privacy issues facing users and deployers of Web 2.0 applications that require unnecessary disclosure of personally identifiable information,” said Brett McDowell, executive director, Liberty Alliance. “The series reinforces the need for users to become educated about the identity information they share online, their options for avoiding such identity traps, and the policies organizations must have in place to ensure personal information is both respected and protected.”
About Liberty Alliance and the Privacy in Perspective Webcast Series
With over 150 members from around the world, Liberty Alliance is the only global identity organization that includes technology vendors, consumer service providers and educational and government organizations working together to build a more trusted internet by addressing the technology, business and privacy aspects of digital identity management. Liberty Alliance works with identity organizations worldwide to ensure all voices are included in the global identity discussion and regularly holds and participates in public events designed to advance the harmonization and interoperability of CardSpace, Liberty Federation (SAML 2.0), Liberty Web Services, OpenID and WS-* specifications. The goal of the Privacy in Perspective series is to help assure an understanding and jump-start a dialogue about privacy implications surrounding various identity related technical solutions and deployments. Registration and a complete agenda is available at http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/news_events/webcasts
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beta from openLiberty.org
Some exciting news for those following the open source developments of openLiberty.org. Check out Asa’s post here and watch for more developments in 2Q
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Liberty Alliance Announces March 10 Santa Clara Identity Management Implementation Workshop
Understanding and Implementing Liberty Alliance Specifications and Policy-Based Identity Assurance and Governance Frameworks Focus of Public Event
Santa Clara, CA. Feb 4, 2008 – Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced a digital identity management implementation workshop taking place on March 10 from 9:30am - 5:30pm in Santa Clara, CA. This public event is for developers, system integrators and technical, business and policy teams interested in understanding how to implement Liberty’s open identity specifications and policy-based governance and privacy frameworks to build and deploy secure and privacy-respecting identity systems.
The event features representatives from organizations deploying SAML 2.0 Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services who will review deployment use cases and a step-by-step overview of how technology and policy issues have been addressed within the application. The workshop will include functionality overviews of Liberty’s open identity specifications, a session on the soon-to-be released open source code from openLiberty.org and updates on the policy-based Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) and the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). The event will showcase Liberty specifications used in a Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment and will include the industry’s first Data Portability and Identity face-to-face meeting.
“Organizations need to address technology, business and privacy issues if they are to more easily build and deploy successful digital identity management solutions,” said Brett McDowell, executive director, Liberty Alliance. “The March 10 workshop will provide participants with the technology and policy overviews they need to jump-start the process of building identity dependent applications that can interoperate with the growing number of Liberty deployments worldwide.”
About the March 10 Santa Clara Workshop
Located at the Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Campus, the Liberty Alliance Workshop - Understanding Liberty’s Identity Technology Standards: Built for Today, Paving the Way to Tomorrow will discuss the use cases for implementing Liberty standards and the gains that can be realized through implementation, providing a clear view on where to start, what to implement first, and what prerequisites need to be in place. The workshop will blend traditional presentations with interactive birds-of-a-feather (BOF) discussions, providing opportunities for participants to interact, network and understand the Liberty standards, governance and policy landscape. The agenda and registration is available at https://maa.projectliberty.org:443/ws/index.html
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