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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Reuters: Vint Cerf on "real name" issues
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Reuters: Vint Cerf on "real name" issues
http://j.mp/WGJa5x (Reuters)
"In an interview with Reuters, Cerf acknowledged that the search
giant's sweeping push in the past 18 months to institute real-name
authentication for Google+ and other services has sparked intense
debate within its Mountain View, California, headquarters. But he
argued that current name policy, which allows for some users to
display pseudonyms, offers adequate "choice" in how users choose to
represent themselves."
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The key here, as Vint explains, is that different kinds of services
need different sorts of naming criteria to be most useful, nor, I
might add, is every service necessarily suitable to be used by
everyone, everywhere, in every situation. Identity can range from
fully confirmed to totally anonymous in the "brick and mortar" world,
and the same applies here. That's why, for example, Gmail effectively
has no "real name" requirements at all, while Google+ has a different
(and still evolving -- remember it's still a relatively new service)
methodology in this area.
--Lauren--
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