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 [...]
This is the view from my office window today. How amazing. I’ll give you 2 points if you can you identify what kind of bird this is? (Hint: IDology is based in Atlanta and this is a mascot for one of our professional sports teams)
OK, I know, I gave it away. Let’s keep playing. 10 [...]
The news about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke becoming a victim of ID theft resulting in a financial crime scares the living daylights out of me. It used to be more of an inconvenience if your purse was stolen or your home burglarized because of the accounts you had to cancel or change. At most, [...]
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 [...]
It’s official. As of today, we’ve announced our launch into the lead verification market. For quite some time we’ve been helping companies verify the identity of their online consumer leads (see our case study for DMS Research, a division of AOL and an online marketing survey panelist company), so really this is more just a [...]
One of the biggest misconceptions we are constantly addressing is the confusion between shared secret questions and dynamic knowledge based authentication questions. And this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy isn’t helping to clear up the confusion since Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University are showing that the secret questions used to secure the [...]
So I stumbled on some news from a European company called MyID.is and their Paypal approach to help consumers tie real world identities to their virtual world identities. While the concept is interesting, I somewhat question its ability to scale. Although it seems to be working in Europe, in our instant gratification world where we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
