Entries Tagged as 'protecting kids online'

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Identity Verification during Account Origination: When Will Social Networking Sites Ever Learn?

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: [...]

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Sex Offenders & Social Networking Wake Up Call

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 [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Age Verification In the News…

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 [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

IDology Expands on Its Member Statement to Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s Final Report…

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 [...]

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Calling All Age Verification and Internet Child Safety Technologies…

If you have a technology solution that can be used to address child Internet safety you should check out the call for review entries the Berkman Center announced last week to present to the Technical Advisory Board Committee, which is a sub-committee of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. The Technical Advisory Board members [...]

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Starting to Build Trusted Identity Online Through Verified Age InfoCards

One of the great things about CardSpace and the work the Information Card Foundation will be doing is developing how managed cards are going to work in commerce. A good use case is to show an age verified card for situations where you only need to show proof of age — thus limiting the [...]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Age Verification Research

As an identity and age verification provider IDology continually monitors the market to stay up to date on the issues surrounding online identity and age verification. Today I thought I would share with you what we have recently compiled for age verification. This (very long) post presents age verification by industry and country [...]

Friday, April 4th, 2008

A Good Perspective on Social Networking Identity Verification Issues

Zach Martin, editor of CR80 News recently published an article about the identity and age verification issues we are facing in social networks. You definitely should check it out but in case you don’t have time here are some important highlights:
When trying to get into a bar or club there is typically someone at [...]

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Internet Safety Technical Task Force Kicks Off

We had the kick-off meeting for the Internet Safety Technical Task Force this week. As I expected, there are a lot of differing opinions of the committee members. It should be an interesting year to watch how things progress.
I believe the key to progress is being able to listen and keeping an [...]

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Taking Internet Safety To Task…

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 [...]