Posted Sat Jul 25 17:27:17 PDT 2009

People will be able to control and federate their own data

Authored by John Clippinger

John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University, predicts a huge shift over the next one to two years in the way people manage their identities. He asserts that "user-centric identity, "the ability of individuals to carry their information from one site to another in a "cloud" of their own making, will become increasingly important.