Mike Kiser

On September 14, 2019, the full mandate of PSD2 took effect, which means open banking will continue to make inroads into the financial fabric of society. While the full realization of this concept provides an opportunity for innovators, it also represents a unique privacy challenge. An Opportunity for Innovation Opening up a stolid market by allowing consumers to migrate their...

Who was the real Tarra Simmons? On November 16, 2017, she sat before the Washington State Supreme Court. The child of addicts and an ex-addict and ex-felon herself, she had subsequently graduated near the top of her law school class. The Washington State Law Board had denied her access to the bar, fearing that the “old Tarra” would return. She...

Amidst the current heatwave, David Lee and Mike Kiser review the late summer identity landscape. They (well, Mike) propose a strategy for paying for the recent series of compliance-related fines by eliminating the entire public relations department, contemplate four days in a Dominican jail with John McAfee, and explore what the future holds sans Botox via the recent FaceApp debacle....

Live from Washington D.C., David Lee and Mike Kiser bring you into the wonderful world of Identiverse 2019. We cover the week at one of the premier identity conferences, along with special guest Cathy Hall, Privileged Access Lead from Sila. U.S. Congressman Bill Foster’s wide-ranging keynote prompts a discussion of the Better Identity Coalition — and the organizations behind it....

David Lee and Mike Kiser take you “live” to Navigate 2019 in beautiful Austin, TX in this very special episode of Mistaken Identity. Dr. Jen Golbeck explores the ethical issues that we face as we seek to employ algorithms and identity, VP of Product Management Rick Weinberg discusses the future of predictive identity, and SVP of Software Mike Siegel lays...

Smallpox is one of the deadliest diseases in all of human history. If you contracted Smallpox in the 18th century, you would have a one in three chance of dying within sixteen days. In the 20th century alone, Smallpox killed over 500 million people. Fortunately, it’s also the only infectious disease among humans that has been successfully eradicated. Daniel Bernoulli,...

Today marks the first anniversary of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Europe’s data privacy regulation shook up the privacy world by delineating penalties for some of the strongest consumer protection laws of the last 20 years and inspired even stricter laws in other parts of the world. GDPR created a single breach-notification regulation for the entire EU with...

What kind of financial windfall would it take to put you into the 1% — to enable you to leave your job, climb aboard your yacht, and eat avocado toast for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? The answer to that question varies depending on your location: in India it would be a relatively paltry $81K per year, in France it would...

Great suffering always produces great art, with each master artist choosing her own medium. The powerful combination of pain and creativity finds its greatest expression in the form of a lament. Merriam-Webster defines a lamentation as “an expression of sorrow, mourning, or regret.” Around World Backup Day, you may read many pieces advocating the wisdom of securely backing up your...

The phrase, “probably worth a google” takes on a whole new shade of meaning as Mistaken Identity explores the fourth fine levied under GDPR. Google was fined $57 million for inadequate user consent by a French data privacy agency. Is this the “big one” that people have been waiting for to show that privacy regulation has the power to change...