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John Fontana

John Fontana
John Fontana is a journalist focusing in identity, privacy and security issues. Currently, he is the Identity Evangelist for cloud identity security vendor Ping Identity, where he blogs about relevant issues related to digital identity. Prior to Ping, John spent 15 years as a senior reporter for a variety of publications, including Communications Week, Internet Week and Network World, where he focused on enterprise topics including collaboration, directories, network infrastructure, databases, open source, ERP and security. He covered IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Red Hat, Google among other enterprise vendors. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, CNN, CIO and Mashable.

About Identity Matters

John Fontana's blog traverses the evolving digital identity landscape and its intersection with the cloud, compliance, audit, privacy, mobile computing, API integration and security.

  • Google’s FTC privacy report unmasked

    By John Fontana | February 13, 2012, 10:33am PST

    Google defends its forthcoming privacy policy changes in a report to the FTC saying that no new data sharing will take place. One privacy agency says Google did not answer all the questions it was...

  • Woman who pleaded Fifth in password case now citing Fourth

    By John Fontana | February 10, 2012, 8:28am PST

    A woman who argued that providing a password to authorities was a violation of her Fifth Amendment rights has filed an appeal in her case and is now also citing the Fourth Amendment.

  • Court agrees to speed up case over Google’s privacy policies

    By John Fontana | February 9, 2012, 1:27pm PST

    A federal court has agreed to an accelerated briefing schedule in a privacy case that could affect the rollout of Google’s new privacy policies.

  • EPIC sues FTC to stop Google; search giant says group wrong on facts, law

    By John Fontana | February 8, 2012, 2:56pm PST

    The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission in federal court to compel the agency to stop Google from rolling out its new privacy policies.

  • NSTIC doc outlines transition to privately led ID effort

    By John Fontana | February 8, 2012, 8:41am PST

    The government’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace takes its most important step to date by releasing recommendations for turning the effort over to the private sector.

  • BrowserID takes evolutionary step; ventures into wild

    By John Fontana | February 7, 2012, 2:16pm PST

    The Mozilla Foundation is inviting all email providers to adopt its BrowserID technology and begin validating their users’ log-ins to Web sites that support the protocol.

  • Google’s answer to EU as succinct as its privacy policy

    By John Fontana | February 6, 2012, 2:45pm PST

    Google doesn’t have a lot of patience for European regulators who asked the search giant to “pause” the roll out of its new privacy policy, set to launch March 1, so they can...

  • Gartner: Identity a lever of control; 6 trends for 2012

    By John Fontana | February 6, 2012, 7:16am PST

    Six trends will dominate the identity landscape in 2012, according to Gartner. Three are new and three are holdovers from 2011. The trends challenge not only the way IT thinks about identity and...

  • NSTIC puts $10 million toward identity pilot programs

    By John Fontana | February 2, 2012, 1:31pm PST

    The effort to create a national identity infrastructure is starting to take shape as $10 million is ear-marked to fund pilot programs that may well form the foundation of the National Strategy for...

  • EPIC files FOI request over first Google Privacy Report to FTC

    By John Fontana | February 1, 2012, 4:41pm PST

    The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a Freedom of Information request to see Google’s mandated privacy report to the Federal Trade Commission, which is part of April...

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