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May 16th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Tom Ilube ponders ’social verification’ with FOAF
Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves held by banks, loan companies, etc; "Would you know if your personal information got into the wrong hands? Or if it was being used incorrectly? There are over four billion places online that could be storing your data - from entries on websites to public records. You'd have to have more than just eyes in the back of your head to keep tabs on that lot. That's why we created DataPatrol - to...
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