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This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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We know summer is well and truly on its way when May brings us the two long weekend Bank Holidays. It's just so unfortunate that it comes at a time when there is such intense activity in the Identity and personal data space! I'm writing this as the US enters the week of its 4th July celebrations. Much of Europe is already on vacation and the UK is in the midst of a heatwave. I do feel sorry for folks downunder. I heard that Wellington New Zealand woke to 3 degrees Celsius last weekend and it has been very cold in South America too.
Like many other organizations, we wanted to position Kantara optimally in terms of GDPR compliance, and took the opportunity to review our Privacy Statement and clarify our lawful bases for processing personal information across our website pages. Internally we have reviewed where your personal data resides in our largely cloud based systems and took steps to minimize movement by processing it where it rests. Whether you are a member or non member participant there's no specific action you need to take, but we would be grateful if you could familiarize yourself with the revised Privacy Policy (now renamed Privacy Statement) and if you have any queries or comments please Contact us.
New Members joining this month are UNLOQ Systems Ltd from the UK, Carlos Dominguez from Canada, Reede Taylor from the Netherlands and Sunil Kapila from India, while CA Technologies Inc and Judith Bush from the US renewed. Welcome UNLOQ, Carlos, Reede and Sunil, and welcome home CA and Judith!
Kantara was participating in a range of European conferences in May. First up was the Kuppinger Cole hosted European Identity & Cloud Conference in Munich with a combined Kantara AGM and members plenary on Monday May 14th. The AGM and member plenary was attended by around 15 members primarily from Europe but we had representaton from north America and Asia-Pac too. Kantara's own pre-conference workshop the following morning Tuesday15th was exceptionally well attended. You can review the presentations of this and all other Kantara events in the Events Archive. Each year the conference organizers give us a bigger room and each time we fill it. We may have had the largest crowd of any pre-conference workshop this year and we certainly achieved a "quorate" gathering of UMAnitarians, which Eve posted on the UMA FB page! :). Eve also presented later in the week on Leveraging UMA's Power for Compliance and User Control, which reflected the current state of the group's work on its business model. See her presentation here.
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Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
Consent Management Systems best practice WG has seated its editor, and its meetings are currently taken up with demos from various solution providers to inform the collection of best practice going forward. Thank you sponsors iWelcome and digi.me.
You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work Group and Discussion Groups directly off the Leadership Council's Blog.
- See the list of public groups here
- Consent Receipt v1.1 and the SAML V2.0 Interoperability Deployment Profile V1.0 is being prepared for publication.
- The IRM work group is considering the use of Graphing technology to provide fine grain permissions to address governance, risk Management and compliance requirements, while also catering for the increase in scale arising from the explosion of IoT.
As always our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports are available for download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository.
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