Identified Anonymity
Google is to anonymize theirs servers logs that it can no longer be identified with individual users after 18-24 months. Generally speaking, Identity and Anonymity is a polar contrasts. I guess bad guys will love OpenId or LinkedIn, while good ones, as SEO Freelancers, will love deep anonymity. The question is follows - who are you in cyberspace? I see 'a digital identity as a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject.' At the same time I believe the identity is freedom to be anonymous.
Identified Anonymity By Steve Carter methods and data structures providing for the association of an identity with attributes such that the owner of the attributes remains anonymous but that the association of the attributes with the identity is validated. Assurances of authenticity are therefore based on countersigned attestations.
24-03-2007
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Eric Schmidt, CEO of GoogleMobile phones are cheaper than PC's, there are three times more of them, growing at twice the speed, and they increasingly have Internet access. What is more, the World Bank estimates that more than two-thirds of the world's population lives within range of a mobile phone network. Mobile is going to be the next big Internet phenomenon. It holds the key to greater access for everyone - with all the benefits that entails.
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