Project Verify

September 12, 2018

U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

This post was originally published on this siteThe four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. Here’s a look at what’s coming, and the potential security and privacy trade-offs of trusting the carriers to handle online authentication on your behalf. Tentatively dubbed “Project Verify” and still in the private beta testing phase, the new authentication initiative is being pitched as a way […]