By: Jodi Florence
I’m sure no one will argue with me that the one thing that has heightened Internet privacy concerns the most is the explosion of Social Networking sites, particularly Facebook. Last summer I blogged about privacy and pointed out a blog post by Burton Group’s Ian Glazer on his Facebook Privacy Mirror experiment related [...]
By Jodi Florence
Some of the regular blog visitors might have noticed our new Facebook block on the right-hand side of the blog. While we aren’t new to social networking, our “official IDology Facebook fan page” is new and we hope you, loyal reader (or first time visitor), will identify yourself by joining our page!
We have [...]
By Jodi Florence
Sorry both John and I have been missing in action for a few weeks. But on the bright side, the lack of blog posts of late means this one is jammed packed full of relevant identity news!
I’ll start by highlighting a blog post on identity verification from our partner Oracle. Brian Mozinski does [...]
If I said it once, I’ve said it a 1000 times, Identity Verification of Adults on Social Networking Sites can be used today and will start to solve problems associated with identity and age related issues on Facebook (and MySpace, Twitter, etc.).
Case in point is the latest impersonation of Former Governor Sarah Palin on Facebook: [...]
On the heels of the privacy workshop in Washington this past Monday (which regrettably I was unable to attend) and Burton Group’s Catalyst 09 event in San Diego two weeks ago where Privacy was a featured track one day, I want to mention some important things going on in the identity industry and point out [...]
Interesting article in the Washington Post last week about joining Facebook when you have an unusual name like Batman, Pancake or Six. Given this social networks “real identity” focus, I understand their wanting to be sure that unusual names are real and not someone trying to set up fake profiles. And while I’m sure the [...]
Well after the recent news about 90,000 sexual predators being removed from MySpace (before the Task Force issued their Report, MySpace only admitted to removing 25,000) and the most recent sexual predator sex ring bust on Facebook that involved 31 students and an 18 year old man, I can’t help but reiterate our position that [...]
It’s been a few weeks since the Internet Safety Technical Task Force released its Final Report and the media coverage keeps coming. It’s no secret that IDology had some comments/objections with the Final Report which apparently from this article in the Wall Street Journal so did the Attorneys General. You might also want [...]
On December 17, 2008 we submitted a supplemental Member Statement to the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s Final Report. The report was delivered to the Attorneys General on December 23 and made public today. The final report was not a consensus document and the Member Statements served as an avenue for us to state our [...]
It’s official! The Task Force to focus on identifying effective online safety tools and technologies, including age and identity verification has been created and was announced today. If you recall, this Task Force was an important element in the MySpace and Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group announced last month.
The Task Force is [...]
