I had the privilege of speaking at IdentityNorth 2020 yesterday on managing global compliance over the next decade with identity privacy requirements. I took on the lens that current compliance requirements may (and hopefully will) change, and that I was speaking to an ideal, not to where we are today, which is not ideal but dangerous for the personal information of Canadians. It should also be noted this is a true privacy-first approach, and as Read more…
One of the goals of a service offering privacy, is that they should build their system so you don’t have to trust them. This is not easy, but it’s worth watching the organizations who do so. I’m happy to announce that we’ve got ID hashes working, which is the first major step in ensuring that users no longer have to trust that me or anyone in the organization can access your information! Not only does Read more…
There are many industries that need to be concerned about money laundering, and terrorist financing. We’re currently focused on the prioriy industries bound by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC). This means the following industries: Money laundering and terrorist financing indicators – Accountants Money laundering and terrorist financing indicators – Agents of the Crown Money laundering and terrorist financing indicators – British Columbia notaries Money laundering and terrorist financing indicators – Read more…
I’m excited to announce we have a WordPress plugin that is now ready for beta testing, which takes only a few minutes to implement and for your website to start getting new users. Why would you want it? If you run a WordPress website, and you want users, but you’re concerned about the impact of a privacy breach, we’re a solution worth trying. How does it work? We can vet users to any level of Read more…
If you’ve followed privacy laws for the last decade in Canada, you know that there are several cases where personal data must remain on Canadian soil. This deployment of IDVPN is on Canadian soil and compliant with these laws, yet provides an offering you’ve not seen before. We’ll start at the federal level, where PIPEDA states that information can cross a border, but the company doing so is responsible during the transit and outsourcing. Alberta Read more…
It’s 2019, and data breaches are becoming increasingly common, and more expensive to remediate, every year. IBM just released its annual findings, which state that the average cost of a data breach is $3.9 million USD, and the average cost per record lost is $150 USD per person. In terms of your time, the report suggests it takes 279 days to identify and contain a breach, and 314 days is the life cycle of a Read more…
So what’s this all about? We don’t have a 30-second commercial just yet, so we’ll start with some of the highlights. Before we dive in, the most popular question we get if you haven’t yet heard of us, is, “Why would we trust you?” and the answer is, our roadmap is building a system where you shouldn’t have to trust us, or anyone, but yourself. You will get the private keys to unlock your personal Read more…