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.'"

Comments

please stand up

[alphatel]

I am the real Mark Zuckerberg.

Re:I hear they will also stick a chip in your ass

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Nonsense. The chip will record your movements in real time.