Information Card Foundation Launched
Robert Vamosi reports for Cnet News.com on the Information Card Foundation, a new group created by Equifax, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, PayPal, and others to "increase awareness of the use of electronic ID cards on the Internet, and encouraging interoperability in business around new standards." The Information Card Foundation website should be updated with more information on Tuesday. See also Dark Reading's article today. Laurie Flynn covers the story in Tuesday's New York Times.
More than a few 'founding members' of this organization have recently had the opportunity to review the approach developed (and patented) by CT-based KeyID. (www.keyid.com One of the 'founding members' went so far as to suggest that phishing isn't a real problem for them--as the 'cost' of identity theft is passed over to the merchandise seller and imposed as a charge back. According to the same founding member, the impact on end users (identity theft) is not their problem. As usual, what is sitting on the tip of the nose is easily missed by even the 'smartest' minds.
Posted by: Jay Berkman | June 24, 2008 at 06:52 AM