Ideas like these have been mooted in the past, not juts from the media industry, but also from the tech industry (Passport, Liberty Allaince etc)…hard to make it work.
But the bigger point is true: publishers need to be more upfront abot when and why they require registration data from consumers.
Hespos says: “If sites like BugMeNot can emerge without help from publishing companies, there must be enough concern out there to merit something like an aggregated registration process, such that a single consumer can register for several sites in one shot.”
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