AOL SNS Compared To Passport

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday August 7, 2001 @03:20PM from the birds-of-a-feather dept.

stuccoguy writes "AOL has their own universal profiler and logon service called Screen Name Service. It looks an awful lot like MS Passport and raises a lot of the same privacy concerns. AOL makes the same weak assurances about not sharing profile information without permission and does not require participating sites to have any specific privacy policy. I don't know how long this service has been around, but I thought it odd that so much attention has been given to the flaws in passport and I have not heard anything about what looks like an identical service by AOL."

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This isn't even news by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-08 05:10 · Score: 1, Informative

AOL has had their screen name service for at least a year now...How this is even relevant to anything, I do not know...
Speaking off Passport-like software... by Alakaboo · 2001-08-10 08:50 · Score: 2, Informative

Anyone installed Netscape 6.1 yet?

I installed it on XP RC2 (so I don't know if it's a global thing, or specific because I was running XP) and it made me sign up for a Netscape.net account before I could use the software. Maybe there was a way to circumvent it, but I was too in-shock at the time think about it.

It's the same exact thing as Passport, just Netscape instead of Microsoft.