“Identity is the new money” does actually mean something.
Sebastien Taveau, the CTO of Validity Inc. (who will be speaking at our Tomorrow’s Transactions Forumin March, by the way), was kind enough to quote me in his review of 2012.
He coined the following statement that has become my favorite of the year.
“Identity is the new money”.
It is simple, powerful and summarizes exactly where the ecosystem is going.
[From Looking Back Forward | Validity Inc. | Biometric Sensors for Mobile Devices]
Seb is much too kind. I may well be guilty of popularising the aphorism in the context of payments and organisational strategies towards secure electronic transactions in the retail space, but I didn’t invent it. I heard it for the first time a few years ago in connection with the ill-fated UK national identity card scheme. I was at the time a member of the Home Office’s Advisory Forum and was interviewed by Sir James Crobsy, who had been called in by the then-Chancellor Gordon Brown to prepare a report on the scheme. It was Sir James who brought the phrase to my attention. [...]
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