Security Issues and Privacy
With automated face recognition, tagging, location tracking and widespread digital authentication systems many actions of a person become easily associated with identity, as a cause, sometimes privacy is lost and security is subverted. An identity system that builds on confirmed pseudonyms can provide privacy and enhance security for digital services and transactions. Cyberspace creates opportunities for identity theft.Exact copies of everything sent over a digital communications channel can be recorded.Thus, cyberspace needs a system that allows individuals to verify their identities to others without revealing to them the digital representation of their identities.
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