The first digital identity fortune will be made not in the consumer world but in corporate sales.
But consumers are wary of handing over the keys to their digital identity.
So let the marketing begin: Companies want consumers using digital identity, and fast.
Sun has a big stake in digital identity--managing the big databases requires special servers, called directories, good at fetching names.
In doing so you leave your digital identity on your computer, and there is nothing criminals love more than a valid online identity.
This is modern-day privacy, about digital identity, the control of personal information, and the brewing battle between what we post and its commercial value.
By storing our social data in a place we retain control over, like App.net (though there will quickly become others), we future-proof our digital identity.
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The idea of this framework is to not only establish a digital identity, but also to provide individuals control over ownership and sharing of their data on the internet.
Digital identity uses software-based features to let people access a network, visit any Web site and be greeted personally and individually, without ever having to fill out a registration form or otherwise introduce themselves.
So if he is willing to bet millions on OneID, a start-up that promises to replace your user name and password for all your accounts with a single digital identity, OneID may be on to something big.
Particularly with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) involved: The Redmond, Wash. monopolist made a big early move to try to impose a standard for digital ID, offering a crude version of its Passport service in 1999. (Novell had the digital identity idea even earlier but couldn't find customers).
While some valid criticisms have been directed at this campaign, it gets at the notion of how fractured our view of identity is in the digital age.
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At Homeland Security, you could work in the burgeoning area of biometrics, which uses technology like digital fingerprints and photos to verify identity and protect against terrorist attacks.
This session will examine some of the opportunities and challenges for Internet governance from the perspective of cyber and information ethics, particularly in the areas of identity, design and digital preservation.
It also dominates the digital checkout line with a bold visual identity and a reputation for quality.
But Hakim and other fashion designers also must learn to balance responding to digital customer feedback while maintaining a consistent brand identity.
The guarantee of identity is in the form of a digital passport known as a certificate.
Every year, sophisticated credit card scammers and identity thieves exploit an arsenal of Machiavellian digital tools to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of unsuspecting individuals.
Label identity has gotten washed away in the digital era.
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Colleges are one potential market for the new keys, which essentially translate the identity information stored on traditional badges into portable, digital form.
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Former Harvard Business professor Clark Gilbert engineered a major reorganization of the Deseret media properties, building a digital company, creating a new-and more narrowly focused-editorial identity for the newspaper and unveiling a weekly national print edition.
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The most aware digital citizens maintain a curious but understandable double standard: media should be liberated, but identity locks should be protected.
Yet this important developmental phase can be dramatically twisted when that identity experimentation, however personal and private, appears permanently on one's digital record for all to see.
"We can make digital transactions much safer than in the real world, " says Kim Cameron, Microsoft's identity-and- access architect.
Despite its growing digital presence, Wahlstrom believes brick-and-mortar stores remain crucial to the company's identity, something that is unlikely to change in any meaningful way anytime soon.
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