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Google Launches Identity Verification Badge Scheme

Posted by samzenpus on from the papers-please dept.

theodp writes "CNET reports that rather than backing down after complaints about its insistence that Google+ user accounts be opened under a real name, Google has upped the ante and will pin 'verification badges' on users in an effort to assure people that 'the person you're adding to a circle is really who they claim to be.' In a Friday night post, Google employee Wen-Ai Yu explained that the Google+ team is initially 'focused on verifying public figures, celebrities, and people who have been added to a large number of Circles, but we're working on expanding this to more folks.'"

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  1. Dear Google... by denzacar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck you.

    And your pluses.

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    Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
    1. Re:Dear Google... by Lysander7 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Agreed."Fuck Google" gets a 5 Insightful? I thought moderation was supposed to grade the quality of content of a post objectively, not "LUL I AGREE". Bunch of fucking kids on this site now.

  2. The Jews has strike again! by Dainsanefh · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They were "supposedly" the one that were being oppressed, yet now they are doing the same thing in a mass scale. Jews founded and funded Google for the matter of fact. Guess what comes around goes around huh?

    May be the prophecy of the Talmud will soon be realized and we will all be enslaved by these alien mutants once again.

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    Twitter: @dainsanefh