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I have plenty of reservations about Big Tech, but why can't Google bid on this? Sure we'd get ads on the ID card but at least they'd get the math right.
by ben_jones 9y ago
I have plenty of reservations about Big Tech, but why can't Google bid on this? Sure we'd get ads on the ID card but at least they'd get the math right.
- mbroshi 9y agoYou've just rediscovered the premise of David Eggers's The Circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
- phjesusthatguy3 9y agoWe're already a lot closer to George Saunders' My Flamboyant Grandson[0] than that. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/28/my-flamboyant-grandson https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/28/my-flamboyant-...
- Ajedi32 9y agoMaybe not Google specifically, but I'd love it if the industry got involved in this somehow. Maybe a standards group like the Internet Engineering Task Force or the FIDO Alliance to work out the spec.
- smitherfield 9y agoAn Apple ID card would be a lot less dystopian. (And would look cooler).
- saalweachter 9y agoI dunno, a lot of dystopian science fiction has the veneer of shiny, and you only find the horrors when you scratch through this shiny surface.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI'd commented to the same effect earlier on Google's own Identity Service: Google+. I think Google's dropped the ball, badly, on identity and authentication (though they're ... making some movement with physical 2FA). I've got massive misgivings myself about private tech firms getting into this space, though I do think they might have useful elements to add by way of suggesting protocols and standards. And I'd be really suprised if various majors aren't part of the discussion. Google, Facebook, Microsoft (remember Passport?), Oracle, IBM. And databrokers such as ADP. Plus banking and financial institutions, who've mostly created the mess....