Manage Your Own Identity Online

Sourced From internetnews.com
February 27, 2006
By Clint Boulton

Computer users’ identity information is managed online today by several different data collection agencies. But imagine the freedom people would feel changing their address with one keystroke?

Microsoft is working on such technology with its InfoCard identity metasystem. Now IBM, Novell and startup Parity Communications are joining the Eclipse open software foundation and Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to tackle the challenge.