At CES 2016 in Las Vegas we could see a number of new offerings around payment systems. They are all based on Internet technologies and mostly use one or more smartphone features and apps. But what about alternatives which are convenient and secure and even anonymous?
Monthly Archives: January 2016
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Our digital sovereignty is jeopardized by potential monopolies of big Internet companies such as Google and Apple. (SZ: Johannes Kuhn: Letzte Ausfahrt Zukunft/Last Exit: the Future; in German: SZ #11, 2016-01-15; URL: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/mozilla-letzte-ausfahrt-zukunft-1.2818241, accessed on 2016-01-16, 11:01 UTC)
Our digital alter ego is abundant – and we better take care of it. The concept of digital sovereignty should help us to manage it. Each and every one of us has a digital alter ego. But who of us knows, where this alter ego is stored? Even more relevant: which attributes are associated with our alter ego? Or: who is making money from knowing or using our alter ego? May be only partially or in combination with other data? Digital sovereignty – the management or control of our alter ego in the digital world – should help us answer […]
Digital sovereignty denotes the authority of individuals over their presence and representations in the digital world. The definition of digital sovereinty is relatively flurry due to its varying meanings. So for this brief discussion, we have searched for both: digital sovereignty and data sovereignty. What we found was that the terms’ interpretations take mainly a governmental view based on definitions for “sovereignty” (different from the terms’ use in Germany as discussed in Digitale Souveränität – Was ist das?).
The paramount penetration and use of Internet technologies in our day to day life demands for adequate consideration of security, safety, and dependability requirements as well as social control. As the founder of in4com, Manfred Reitenspiess is focused on analyzing and promoting the secure application of information and communication technologies respecting digital civil rights. Over more than 35 years he worked on national and international level with market and opinion leaders from industry, standards, government, and science on the design, development, and deployment of security functions.
