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IBM Donates Privacy Tool, Identity Mixer, to Eclipse Higgins Project
IBM has announced software called Identity Mixer, developed by researchers at IBM's laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland. It allows people to hide their personal information on the Web, thus ensuring protection from identity theft and other misuse. It enables consumers to purchase goods and services on the Internet without disclosing personal information. It eliminates the data trail left behind by consumers during their online purchasing activities.

IBM will contribute its Identity Mixer software to Eclipse Higgins project, an open source effort dedicated to developing software for "user-centric" identity management. A user-centric approach implies that individuals can control who has access to their online personal information, rather than having institutions solely manage that information as they do today.

The Identity Mixer software will provide the required added layer of privacy to the Project Higgins framework for true user centric identity management. IBM plans to incorporate the Identity Mixer technology into its Tivoli software portfolio of federated identity management software.

Project Higgins was announced in February 2006 by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, IBM, Novell and Parity Communications. It was the first user-centric identity management effort to follow the open source software model, whereby hundreds of thousands of developers contribute and continually drive improvements through collaborative innovation. The open source Higgins effort will support computers running any operating system, as well as any identity management system.
 


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