Philip Linden's Folly - about the current efforts of Linden Labs to equip Second Life with an ID verification system. Interesting for German citizens in SL: this service provider collects heaps of data pools, links these to obtain as complete views as possible and makes evaluations, data sales, verifications, etc. which is of course nonsense in the context of age verification: simply enter your father's data and that's it. As a security level, complete nonsense. Piquant: their partner in Great Britain is the GB Group with the product URU, which also offers these services and is subject to EU data protection rules - I can't imagine that it is still legal in this context. And that data is also collected from non-British and non-American citizens directly affects our data protection rules. It would be interesting to see how many Europeans and especially Germans are willing to send their passport number to an American service provider to gain extended access to a virtual world. I fear far too many ...