Online identity woes can only be solved through the medium of GIF

The Global Identity Foundation aims to recruit vendors in its ambitious quest to develop a global digital identity ecosystem.

GIF is seeking to develop a new, global solution for digital identities, with the not-for-profit organization building on work from the Jericho Forum, including the Jericho Forum’s Identity, Entitlement & Access Management (IdEA) Commandments (PDF).

More specifically, GIF aims to bring together vendors and security experts to develop a single, open-source, globally accepted, digital identity ecosystem – Identity 3.0 – for secure and trusted online and offline transactions.

“Digital identity is broken,” said Paul Simmonds, chief exec of the GIF and ex co-founder and board member of the Jericho Forum. “Online credit card fraud, phishing, and cybercrime all succeed by fraudulently using someone else’s identity and users are rightly concerned about access to their personal information.”

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