Google Launches Identity Verification Badge Scheme

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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Google.com is anonymous - should it be revoked?

[theodp]

From whois.net:
Registrant:
                Dns Admin
                Google Inc.
                Please contact contact-admin@google.com 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
                  Mountain View CA 94043
                US
                dns-admin@google.com +1.6502530000 Fax: +1.6506188571

Re:please stand up

[ColdWetDog]

show us your badge!

We don't need no stinking badgers.