ClaimID in the New Scientist
September 18th, 2006 - Fred StutzmanSome very exciting news from our front - ClaimID was featured in the most recent New Scientist, in an article examining online identity and privacy.
What’s more, people can end up having multiple identities online. The picture you present of yourself on the dating site Match.com, for instance, will likely be different to the one you give on Facebook, restricted mainly to universities and high schools. This can be confusing if someone is trying to find out more about you by searching on Google - if they’re thinking of employing you, for example, or dating you. In recognition of this online identity crisis, Stutzman and his colleague Terrell Russell have set up a service called ClaimID (claimid.com) that allows you to track, verify, annotate and prioritise the information that appears about you online, so that when someone searches you they get representative information.
We’re working on finding a print copy of the article and scanning it in. This is obviously pretty exciting for us, to have our work featured in a great place like New Scientist.
I also came across this great picture, from an art installation by the UK artist Banksy. This piece spoke to me on a number of levels.
Lately that’s been feeling more and more true.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Congratulations on being noticed by New Scientist! To me, that’s an indication that attention to social networks and the problem of online identity is broadening beyond the realm of sociology and politics — a welcome development.
The screen text (”In the future”) reminds me of my first contacts with you, through comments I made on your Unit Structures blog. In one of my comments, I talked about the sci-fi-like nightmare vision of the future outlined in the final “safety tip” in our book “MySpace Safety: 51 Tips”, where the entire history of a person’s Internet activity is available to anyone else almost immediately.
The title of the NewScientist article (”Living online: The end of privacy?”) is scary enough. It’s a real credit to you and your team that you’ve reached the point where a journal of that distinction highlights ClaimID as addressing the “online identity crisis”.
October 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm
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