I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about the nature of identity. I posited a few weeks ago that every human being who ever lived, or ever will live, has a unique identity based on a ...

Last September, we wrote about FDA’s request for comments on the use of unique identifiers for medical devices. Since then, FDA received almost 90 comments, many of them from industry. A lot of them ...

Does an identity have to be unique? I think we’ll get little argument if we claim that, within a given context, an identity (that is, some distinguishable object) must have a unique identifier.

A voluntary, patient-controlled system of unique identifiers is the only way to ensure acceptable levels of safety and accuracy when exchanging medical information through an electronic national ...

Despite Apple's privacy rules for app developers, many iPhone apps still access the phones' unique device identifiers. A study by University of California, San Diego researchers recently found that 48 ...

A proposal by federal regulators to require unique electronic identifiers on large trucks wasn’t well received by many of the nation’s motor carriers and independent truckers. In fact, the large ...

In 2016, it’s not uncommon for individuals to juggle dozens of social media accounts and provide information ranging from email to home address and phone number with many transactions — some even ...