Rather than requiring you to set up an account with every site you shop at, entering the same personal information over and over, the stalwart online payment firm wants you to use your PayPal identity across multiple merchants.

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The idea was that instead of having a central identity provider, multiple accounts would be linked.

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For Labour, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch suggested social networking sites should stop children from being able to use fake names or set up multiple accounts to disguise their identity.

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The situation in the GOP is historically bad and getting worse because identity crises are now plaguing multiple factions on the right.

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The story of Psalmanazar fascinates me, not only because of his incredible genius to build an entire identity based on the ignorance of multiple cultures, but also because of the seemingly willful ignorance of the duped.

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