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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7328170.stm Sex offenders' e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children. In the usual "won’t something think of the children" government attempts to legislate lack of parental supervision on the internet; assuming that an email address is permanent and can never change. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she wanted children to be "free from fear". "We need to patrol the internet to keep predators away from children in the same way as we patrol the real world," she told GMTV. Of course in the...
<rant> One of the problems I have when extolling Information Cards is the severe lack of real world implementations, beyond those Vittorio has had a helping hand in. A common question is where does Microsoft use it themselves? The honest answer is "Nowhere, beyond a pathetic nod at it with Live ID™, using self issued cards to protect the Live ID login page, and only if you’re in Internet Explorer, oh and it’s beta support, and has been for over 6 months". A recent post by an EMEA Architect Evangelist is making me bang my head against the wall. One...
Friday and Saturday saw the annual UK MVP Open Day. Aside from the excellent presentations (and the sulk at being accused of heckling by Colin) a thought and conversation I’d be having with a wee blonde lass all week was proven. I had been receiving a large amount of grief for not being on the social "networking" site facebook and a bunch of people threatened to create an account in my name on there; so I ended up making a pre-emptive strike. This nicely illustrates the problem of identity versus persona. My argument (for Maz) is that we don’t have...