A Washington-based privacy group held the first of what will be a series of discussions with Microsoft Corp. Wednesday regarding the future of the software maker's Passport authentication service. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) solicited talks with members of . . .
A Washington-based privacy group held the first of what will be a series of discussions with Microsoft Corp. Wednesday regarding the future of the software maker's Passport authentication service. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) solicited talks with members of Microsoft's .Net developers team and its Washington legal counsel to discuss the technical details of Passport, the single sign-on service that allows subscribers to log on to a collection of Web sites without re-entering personal information. The authentication system is at the center of Microsoft's Internet plans and its set of Web services, called Hailstorm.

"Within these discussions today we spoke about consumer privacy issues, government privacy issues, security issues and standards issues," said Ari Schwartz, a spokesman for the CDT. "All those questions were tied back to Passport and Hailstorm."

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