Though Voltman believes that privacy issues are crucial, he does point out that because most authentication is done by their customers, rather than Iridian itself, the company has little control over the issue.

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Nevertheless, of the ten workshops put on by the FTC last year identity theft, security, and authentication seem to not have been addressed, although a number of workshops dealt with issues of privacy broadly.

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But Shibboleth handles all the identification and authentication of users in between the school and the database, thus reducing the complexity of management and protecting the privacy of individual users.

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