Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Project Higgins for user-centric ID management

Project Higgins – which is being managed by the Eclipse open source foundation -- is developing software for "user-centric" identity management, an emerging trend in security software. Building on a concept developed by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, it enables individuals to actively manage and control their online personal information, such as bank account, telephone and credit card numbers, or medical and employment records -- rather than institutions managing that information as they do today. People will decide what information they want shared with trusted online websites that use the software.

3/01/2006 10:04:00 AM