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Tag: identity
Only 19.6% of 18-24 year-olds consider their dating profile to be an invasion of their privacy, compared to 54.6% of other respondents.
privacy is for old people.
The ones who’ll struggle? Here’s betting it’ll be Before Netters like me, with our weirdly sterile Google lives that begin in middle age and our old-fashioned skittishness about online embarrassment and criticism.
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you can now create your avatar from your passport picture inside SL. smart move for cyber extruder. their free version was fun to play with a couple years ago.
Virtual credit cards, also known as substitute credit card numbers or controlled payment numbers, have already been around 7 years but have never caught on despite being a free and effective layer of protection.
of course, sensible solutions like this to “identity theft” are never propagated. instead, we get all the headless chicken nonsense.
The stream of negative comments began in 2002 after a woman who had sought advice from Scheff turned on her. The postings appeared on PTA Web sites in Florida, where Scheff lives. On bulletin boards and online forums. There were even YouTube videos threatening her. She sued for defamation and won an $11.3M verdict, but the attacks only got worse. In December, Scheff turned to ReputationDefender, a year-old firm that promised to help her cleanse her virtual reputation. She no longer dreads a Google search on her name.
reputation SEO is here.
…being able to register myself as “His Holiness”, that’s what.
funny, but actually why don’t we use titles for disambiguation? gives people with unfortunate (read common) names a stab at internet identity.
It’s easier than ever to move from one service to another. Blog reader? No problem. Photo site? I have accounts on all of them anyway. Social networks? Yeah I’m signed up on all of them. I use the ones everyone else is using, at the moment. Just like we all do. The rest have a stub profile for me, but don’t see much activity. I started wondering if there was less lock-in than I thought on other services supposedly protected by strong network effects. Like eBay, for instance. They’ve got all the buyers, and all the sellers. But what fraction of their transactions are “Buy it now” from their 700k merchants? Is there an 80/20 rule to those merchants? Could a core be drawn to a new service?
only because people apparently don’t place value in data portability, and like re-entering the same thing. which leads me to believe that most people either prefer things ephemeral or ascribe no value to the implied data.
Numbr is Craigsnumber re-branded with a lot of cool new features. Numbr supports 23 US cities, can forward calls to up to 2 phones, blocks telemarketers, and offers a Do Not Disturb option.
Amazing what can be done by replacing clunky, hardwired systems with yet another layer of indirection.
i suspect european privacy laws will mean that the interesting stuff happens elsewhere, and we’ll see people virtually flocking to the jurisdiction that suits them. why not just offer flickr in german, on the .com domain, and sidestep this nonsense?
at the time, we were not ready to deal with spam or submit to central identity control (hailstorm), so trackbacks and friends went nowhere. the network of trust may well be the most valuable part, something other identity providers do not have
Although this notion of a hosted lifebits service seems inevitable in the long run, it’s not at all clear how we’ll get there. The need is not yet apparent to most people, though it will increasingly become apparent. The technical aspects are somewhat challenging, but the social and business aspects are even more challenging. In social terms, I think it’ll be hard to get people to decouple the idea of storage as a service from the idea of value-added services wrapped around storage.
articulate as always, this time on scenarios for owning your digital identity via reasonably guaranteed hosting of your lifebits (under your control)
Gregor J. Rothfuss 