IdentityWoman
An expert and community leader in the field of user-centric identity, Kaliya Hamlin is a founder and the facilitator of the Internet Identity Workshop; co-produced with Phil Windley and Doc Searls. She is also the designer and facilitator of almost 100 unConferences, mostly for professional technical communities. She came to her work in user-centric identity through her active participation in the Planetwork community from 2002-2004. In 2004, following the last Planetwork conference, she was hired as an evangelist by Identity Commons, an association of groups working on social, legal and technical issues surrounding identity on the Web. A fellow of the Information Card Foundation, one of the few members of the Open Web Foundation, and a member of the OpenID Foundation, Kaliya regularly speaks to both technical, business and regular person audiences about identity on the Web. In 2009, she was named one of the 'most influential women in tech' by Fast Company Magazine.
- Based on recent Facebook controversy, what worries you about your Internet privacy?
- Now that we share alot about our lives that used to be private, with services like Twitter, Foursquare & Blippy, what will privacy look like in 5 years? Will it matter?
- Will there be a mechanism to enable people to better control their Web identity?
