I've been playing minimally with Google+ for a few weeks and it's clear to me that it's Facebook 1.3b1 with a different name. We can't fix that. Nor can NSTIC or any other noble effort. It is what it is. The deeper problem is limiting our imagination's scope to the calf-cow system we call client-server, which has metasticised with "social networks" that substitute closed ranches for the open Web, for billions of people. I wrote about this in A Sense of Bewronging: <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2011/04/02/a-sense-of-bewronging/>. Google+ might be better than Facebook, but it's one more ranch. On the one hand, maybe it's nice that Google wants you to to be "real" in how you brand yourself. But they're still wanting brands. They don't want you to bring onto their ranch whatever you called yourself out on the open range. It would be unwise in the extreme for NSTIC to be involved with any vendor, including (and perhaps especially) Google. Meanwhile, a question: With NSTIC can I be my own "trusted identity provider"? I don't know the answer. But if it's no, it's about ranching, not the wide open Internet, and not about user-driven (or centric) digital ID. If it's yes, then NSTIC should steer clear of siding with any "social" ranch, no matter how much NSTIC likes one of those ranch's causes. And it should stand with liberating efforts, rather than more of the same from the likes of Google I'm assuming NSTIC does. Am I right? IMHO. Doc On Aug 1, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Kaliya wrote:
NSTIC "says" it is about maintaining privacy and freedom of speach we have today on the internet while enabling "when you want to" the ability to use a verified account...but I don't have a good feeling about this.
Over the last week in preparation for the "official" door opening of Google+ they have been sweeping it clear of personas and avatars.
Yesterday I myself was included in the sweep post here: http://www.identitywoman.net/googlereal-name-identity-woman
I had been working on a post I will publish this week about NSTIC being part of the push for so called "real names" in Google+ (and apparently you can't get a google e-mail address without one either).
I am curious what others think is there a link? and are you having your accounts suspended?
I am all for "Accountability" that is different then the sort of mantra around "trusted identities" that the only ones worth trusting for anything must be "real".
- Kaliya
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