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August 21, 2011 05:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8YpSBX8TfLs/Google-Launches-Identity-Verification-Badge-Scheme
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.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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