Microsoft introduces Safer Online Environments for Children – Digital Playgrounds

The idea builds on the belief called “End to End Trust” that Microsoft first proposed in April at the RSA Security conference. The whole concept was produced in a paper entitled “Digital Playgrounds:Creating Safer Online Environments for Children”,released by Microsoft.

The company is handling the challenge as to how to make the Internet safer for children.In addition ,this could also help adults who wish to conduct business, make transactions, and communicate with the confidence that they are interacting with people after complete verification. The major area of concern is how to include additional identity authentication without compromising the privacy of the people involved.

Report from one of the blog says,”I started thinking about how we identify people in the physical world three years ago, when my wife had a [baby] boy,” Scott Charney, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Trustworthy Computing, said in a recent interview. “I was in the delivery room, and out he came, and the doctor said, ‘What’s his name?'”

“It occurred to me that all identity is based on social custom and derivative identity. Parents name the child, and the name is put on the birth certificate,” which then becomes the irrefutable proof of that person’s identity, he said. “We haven’t done that on the Internet.”

In order to create digital credentials,Microsoft hopes to use existing verification systems like schools who get children registered for classes , post offices which use passports for verification etc.There have been attempts earlier to create sites which were targeted at children and have not been that successful .But Microsoft assures that online sites which verify age limits would surely be very appealing to parents .

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