- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:36:50 +0200
- To: public-xg-webid@w3.org
On 7/24/11 8:23 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 7/24/11 7:34 PM, Francisco Corella wrote: >> This not a theoretical issue, it is a very practical one. If WebID >> were used as a general purpose WebID, a malicious medical insurance >> company in the US could set up a health information Web site with >> discussion groups. If a user signed up with a WebID and joined a >> discussion group on cancer, the insurance company could later deny >> insurance to the user on suspicion that the user had cancer or a >> dependent who has cancer. This issue can be avoided by using instead >> a "login certificate" issued by the relying party itself, as we >> propose in section 4.6 of our white paper. > But, nothing about WebID implies that a personal is 'You'. > > Let's take the Spiderman and Peter Parker scenario. You can have > WebIDs for both, and only the real identity behind either knows about > the owl:sameAs relation. > > I am saying WebID == Who You Really Are. It just enables identifiers > to be verified. It basically caters for alter egos etc.. Meant to say: But, nothing about WebID implies that a personal URI refers to 'You', specifically. It just enables verifiable identifiers that are associated with identities :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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