Technology companies are joining forces to create online identification cards
Microsoft, Google and PayPal, a unit of eBay, are among the founders of the organization of an industry hopes that solving the problem of overcharging password to the computer user.
The information Card Foundation is an attempt to create a unique concept industrywide management of personal identities online, that promises to reduce considerably the use of passwords and establish a system less vulnerable to fraud.
“It is also a market requirement, to solve this problem,” said Paul Trevithick, the new group president and CEO of parity, a technology to protect the identity of companies to Needham, Massachusetts, which develops so far he drew a map of i. The Foundation, which also includes Equifax, Novell, Oracle and nine industry analysts and technology guide, try to common standards.
The idea is that the concept of an identity card, such as a driver’s license, that the online world. Rather than relying on pages with user IDs and passwords, people would have access to secured sites on a digital identity has been seen by a third party.
In addition to simplifying online shopping, this information will be maps reduce the number of incidents anti-phishing - ie the fraudulent use of any access to the identity of financial records, according to Robert Blakeley , A research director at the Burton Group, a consultancy firm, participation in the effort. “They should not depend on a password, there is no possibility of phishing,” he said.
One of the main tasks of the group is millions of Web sites take over the system, a process, analysts believe that a few years.
“The technology is available today, but it is not today a number of websites, the information cards to accept,” said Blakeley. “The task group is to assure everyone that the industry is working together and that is not competitive on a battlefield.”
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