New identity authentication system?

whoa lol

Im not putting my PHONE number out there for people to get.

I dont want them to know my city either. Basically NO ADDRESS!

Nor my real name.

State, country, age, marital status, gender, what kind of foods I like - lol these are okay

But I dont want any mouth breathing loser calling me up from the payphone downtown and telling me hes only a couple blocks away can we go on a RL date?

I welcome a way for us to know if we are dealing with reputable people or scoundrals.

hehe, well it should never ever be mandatory, and depending on what you spend your time doing in SL there's certainly plenty of valid reasons not to make yourself too easy to find. My point is that there's a big disconnect between the way we tend to deal with people in the real world and the way we do on the internet. Anyone you meet in the real world, through work, or at a bar, or on the sidewalk, or anywhere else, has just as much potential to be a frightening nutcase as someone met online, yet online people attribute a much higher level of danger. That's just never struck me as particularly rational, especially when you consider how identifiability and accountability tend to go hand in hand.

I really don't think Robin Linden was saying the other residents would know that Peggy Paperdoll is really Elain Evans living at 4321 50th St in Des Moines, Ill and is a 75 year old twice divorced single great grandmother with an annual income of 500 million USD.

Des Moines is in Iowa, and anyway that's the address of Taco Bell.

Des Moines is in Iowa, and anyway that's the address of Taco Bell.

hehe, well it should never ever be mandatory, and depending on what you spend your time doing in SL there's certainly plenty of valid reasons not to make yourself too easy to find. My point is that there's a big disconnect between the way we tend to deal with people in the real world and the way we do on the internet. Anyone you meet in the real world, through work, or at a bar, or on the sidewalk, or anywhere else, has just as much potential to be a frightening nutcase as someone met online, yet online people attribute a much higher level of danger. That's just never struck me as particularly rational, especially when you consider how identifiability and accountability tend to go hand in hand.

=Robin Linden the identity authentication system that we’re working on will allow you to verify aspects of your real life identity, such as age, or geo-location. It’s fully opt-in, and our current thinking is it would replace the ‘payment info on file/used’ system of verification.

the identity authentication system that we’re working on will allow you to verify aspects of your real life identity, such as age, or geo-location. It’s fully opt-in, and our current thinking is it would replace the ‘payment info on file/used’ system of verification.

I'm hoping and assuming that this won't be something required of people. If I have to broadcast my personal details just to go into a bar in SL, or whatever, I simply won't go.

I see the age verification as a way for ageplayers to exist in SL and I see the location verification as a way for casinos to exist in SL.

I still don't think Robin Linden said or even implied that personal information (even your location) would be given out to any other resident. Just a yes (or gold star next to your Avi name) that tells others that you have, indeed verified who you are, and that you are of age and responsible for your actions. That would give some confidence to other residents that Peggy Paperdoll is listed in a secure database held by LL that could be accessed if a legal need arises. I would think most anyone would like that star next to their name......unless you are into something shady or even criminal.

I don't want to deal with shady people or criminals. Any method of verification can be duped or gotten around...........but only the determined will do that. Most of us would never leave our doors to our real homes unlocked while we went on vacation for a month but locks are no deterent for a career burglar. Right now we, in SL, have no locks to even turn.

It's a good idea. I like it.

Partly because - unlike in real life, though YOU may be well identified to other people, the other people won't necessarily be.

There really is nothing in real life that requires us to broadcast our age and location to a vast number of total strangers who have no checks on themselves. (For example, though the IRS knows who and where we are, and everything else, the IRS workers who view this information must likewise be identifiable.)

coco

Along with No Voice Enabled, we can use No Personal Information given as a reason to shun someone....

They've already said it'll be opt-in I think. Out of curiosity, would you be more likely to trust someone who identified themselves fully or who was completely anonymous? Anyway, all that's a bit hypothetical since all that was mentioned was the ability to have age and jurisdiction verified (probably no finer grained that state, or even just country).

But, unlike SL, in real life there are enforcible laws and avenues through some sort of legal system that helps protect us from that small percentage of the population that abuses us. With the hands off attitude of LL that says everyone must develop their own way of protection from the few you get what SL is experiencing now.......suspicion of nearly everyone. The honest being hurt as much as the innocent and "criminals" laughing at how easy it is to take assets from others. With some reasonable method of finding those "criminals" everyon gains.

LL obviously does not want to be a governoring entity.........but they will have to be if they expect to survive. No community, real or virtual, can last under anarchy. Changes are coming. I hope the changes are enough to help SL survive.

But as someone else suggested, it might just be a gold star sort of thing, which wouldn't be so bad.

coco