Another way to protect yourself from would-be data thieves is to use your own finger as an identifier.

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Although HIPAA which enforces privacy and security rules was supposed to develop such an identifier, privacy advocates have blocked it because of the potential for identity theft.

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The CFTC for a time appeared to be using the same model for an identifier it required for swaps, but then backed away and said it would wait for the global development of an LEI and call its identifier the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier (CICI) a sort of LEI Lite which will convert or yield to the LEI standard once it is adopted.

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Because his servers had long ago added an extra security identifier to their DNS requests, OpenDNS circumvented Kaminsky's hack.

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The idea should mean that anyone with an Open ID identifier can use it to log in to, and use, any and every other site that has signed up to the scheme.

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However, no parental notice and consent is required when an operator collects a persistent identifier for the sole purpose of supporting the website or online service's internal operations, such as contextual advertising, frequency capping, legal compliance, site analysis, and network communications.

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He cited the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) as an example.

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Coupled with a unique identifier from DTCC, the system will allow a corporate actions user to track an event from instruction through payment.

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