[FYI] URU joins authentication service fray

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2131644,00.html

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URU joins authentication service fray  

13:10 Monday 10th March 2003  

Peter Judge   

The URU Web service will identify individuals online without invading 
their privacy - and says it can alert people to attempted identity 
theft  

A service is being developed that will help businesses check the 
identity of people they are dealing with -- without increasing the 
number of places where personal data is stored.  

Unlike Microsoft's Passport and the Sun-led Liberty Alliance Project, 
where users create an online identity by providing personal details 
to the service, which then authenticates them, the new service, 
called URU, uses information already existing to verify an 
individual's identity.  

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