<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Security Expert Slams Google+ Pseudonym Policy<br />|   from the  anonymous-cowards-unite dept.<br />|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 27,  @08:55 (Security)<br />|   with 346 comments<br />|   <a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An  anonymous reader writes "A security expert has [0]panned Google's<br />"real name"  policy on Google+, claiming that the hard line will damage<br />privacy. Sophos's  Chester Wisniewski says that closing accounts where<br />users have adopted false  names erodes privacy on the social network.<br />'What they seemed to have missed  is that the very foundation of privacy<br />is identity. Simply knowing my postal  code or birth date is meaningless<br />without a name to associate it with. By  requiring people to only use<br />their real names, unless they just happen to be  a celebrity, they have<br />eliminated the ability for people to be private in any  meaningful way.'"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/27/google-misses-an-opportunity-privacy-is-an-important-part-of-openness/">http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/27/google-misses-an-opportunity-privacy-is-an-important-part-of-openness/</a></p>