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A Manhattan Project for online identity

In 1993, Peter Steiner famously wrote in the New Yorker that “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” In 2011, trillions of dollars in e-commerce transactions and a growing number of other interactions have made knowing that someone is not only human, but a particular individual, increasingly important.

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