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November 2015

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Call to Action: Open Consent & Create Open Interoperability
by Mark Lizar 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Dear Kantara Community, Please excuse this advertising nature of this email as it is not the intention to spam the Kantara Community, but, to raise support for a revolution in data control with the creation of real consent. In the last week in the Consent & Information Sharing-WG was apart of the MIT Media Labs Future Commerce Hackathon & Unconference, and we have developed a a project for a Privacy Day (Jan 28) campaign called - I Don’t Agree. The aim of the I Don’t Agree campaign is to create a civic action that will carry from 2016 until 2017 and was designed to put the CIS work to good use in a pilot that uses both the MVCR:Consent Receipt and also experiments with asserting consent preference and user submitted terms. The project is about recognising that what is called consent is not real consent, it is at best assent, through contracts of adhesion. Real consent is open, it is a right we have, not a contract of adhesion, with the unreadable expectation that people read un-readable terms. At this time, people are not able to see what they have consented to, unable to withdraw consent, and unable to provide companies with their own preferences in order to create trust. Companies are themselves burdened with closed policy infrastructure, where each company has their own version of what privacy is, and your customers have no clear way to see the good people who wish to control their own data. So far, the project includes a Presentation <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a7rVNFULxttnf8xlZKHYKlZw88XuNurqQZC…> made at the hackathon and a mock up a landing page called http://www.idontagree.org <http://www.idontagree.org/home.html>. This CIS project has the support of Sandy Peatland’s team and Dazza from MIT Media labs. This was presented to the European Commission, who also is now looking to endorse and support this project. With this campaign, we aim to trail blaze a new era in personal data control, and to create a project that is an anchor for interoperability that can ignite the personal data ecosystem. The project has the ambition of running until Feb 2017. Holding workshops and focusing on interoperability of protocols, projects and products that enable people to create trust and express consent preferences in an open trust based marketplace. Over the next 14 months we aim to build real infrastructure for people to manage their own data and we aim to facilitate this infrastructure to people on Privacy Day Jan 28, 2017, The project is strategically planned to correspond with the fall of the Safe Harbor agreement and the announcement of new European Data Protection Regulation that will clearly specify the requirement for real consent in information sharing, before it comes into force in 2017. As this is not the typical standard or trust focused project in Kantara I would like to invite members of the Kantara community to show your support, with your company logo, and/or to provide a pledge of financial support so that we can kick off this project across not only the USA, but Europe as well. If you are interested in showing your support please get in touch directly, pass this email around and participate as individual by standing up and saying “I Don’t Agree” on Jan 28, 2016. Kind Regards, Mark Lizar Co-Chair Consent & Information Sharing Work Group

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Announcing: Kantara Initiative internationalizes its Trusted Identity Services Community
by Joni Brennan 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Kantara Initiative internationalizes its Trusted Identity Services community welcoming GakuNin, Europoint, and athenahealth PISCATAWAY, NJ – November 17th, 2015 – Kantara Initiative is proud to announce further internationalization of its Identity Assurance Program welcoming GakuNin Access Federation, Europoint, and athenahealth to the Kantara league of industry leaders. The growth of the Kantara Trust Status List of services and assessors enhances opportunities for international market development. GakuNin Access Federation is the first Kantara Accredited Assessor qualified to perform Katnara Assessments at Assurance Level 1 in the jurisdiction of Japan. GakuNin is leading the trust framework construction among various sectors in Japan including business, government, and academia. Europoint continues to pioneer international leadership by becoming re-Accredited as a Kantara Assessor qualified to perform Kantara Assessments at Assurance Levels 1,2,3, and 4 in the jurisdictions of Europe and the United States. athenahealth is the newest Kantara Initiative Approved Credential Service Provider qualified to offer credential services at Assurance Level 3 in the jurisdiction of the United States. The industry leadership of athenahealth connects a broader vision to the Kantara Identity Assurance Program. Joni Brennan, Kantara Executive Director said, “The Kantara ID Assurance Program delivers the value of interoperability internationally through the leadership of long-time Kantara Accredited Assessor Europoint and now with the newly Accredited Assessor GakuNin Federation. Providing value in the healthcare sector, Kantara is also thrilled to welcome innovating athenahealth as the newest Kantara Approved CSP.” Prof. Jun Adachi, Chair of Committee for GakuNin said, “We would like to share the global baseline that is achieved by leveraging a trust framework. GakuNin has joined and participated in Kantara Initiative to help us to address these needs.” To learn more about GakuNin Access Federation, please visit http://www.gakunin.jp/ Björn Sjöholm, CEO of Europoint said, “We are excited to continue our work within the Kantara community as Accredited Assessors. We are convinced that international standardization is the way to achieve confidence and assurance for electronic identities.” To learn more about Europoint, please visit www.europoint.se About Kantara Initiative Kantara Initiative is a membership non-profit organization that provides strategic vision and real world innovation for the digital identity transformation. Developing initiatives including: Identity Relationship Management, User Managed Access (EIC Award Winner for Innovation in Information Security 2014), Identities of Things, and Minimum Viable Consent Receipt.

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