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Identity Management is a Growing Concern on the Internet

Submitted by Safe Internet on Wed, 2010-03-17 16:38

Guest post by: Joy Howell, board member of Safe Internet Alliance

“The Federal Trade Commission’s(FTC) third and final roundtable discussion on privacy today focused on various categories for privacy concerns. Foremost among them was financial and medical record privacy, but an emerging area of sensitivity is locational information, which allows criminals to know where someone is, when they are going on vacation, when they are not at home and so enables criminals to facilitate robberies more easily. It was fascinating to hear the discussion of the new site “www.please rob me.com”.

But one of the key comments came from Anita Allen, a Harvard lawyer who is currently a deputy dean at the University of Pennsylvania, who said, “The Internet is too new to trust that people know how to protect their data and privacy online.”

Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, added that, “Identity management needs a lot of work going forward and perhaps needs to be considered its own category (of concern).”

With almost half of the people who are not online saying that one of the reasons is that they worry that, “bad things happen online” and half of those who are online being concerned about their personal information being used inappropriately, the need for greater safeguards on the Internet is readily apparent.

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