By: Jodi Florence
Here we are a full month into 2010 and I’m just now finding the time to blog. I resolve that for the rest of the year I will not let so much time between posts. Of course, I can’t speak for John.
Things are in full swing at IDology for the new decade. Already, [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Spending the week in sunny San Fran for the annual RSA security conference. A great kick-off to the conference was the Liberty Alliance Workshop that took place yesterday called “Harnessing the Power of Digital Identity.” We’ve been involved in the Information Card Foundation since it was formed and have been a leader in helping to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
