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New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data (csoonline.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the ways-to-confirm-you-exist dept.

itwbennett writes: IBM's Identity Mixer allows developers to build apps that can authenticate users' identities without collecting personal data. Specifically, Identity Mixer authenticates users by asking them to provide a public key. Each user has a single secret key, and it corresponds with multiple public keys, or identities. IBM announced on Friday that Identity Mixer is now available to developers on its Bluemix cloud platform.

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  1. It will never go anywhere. by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1) Companies want the personal data to use for their own marketing and to resell to others, authentication is their excuse to get it now.

    2) No one will want to pay a license fee to IBM on top of the loss of revenue from (1).