[IDG] Washington state’s attorney general is only half-joking when he suggests that perhaps sites like Facebook and MySpace should require members to use a credit card to sign up for access as a way to prove their identity.”We need good age and identity verification technology so that it’s much harder for an individual to get online and pretend to be 15 when [he’s] really a 45-year-old man,” said Attorney General Rob McKenna at the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance in Seattle on Thursday. “There is a way to accomplish this quickly. It’s wildly unpopular,” he said, before suggesting that social networking sites require users to have credit cards.
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Washington state’s attorney general is only half-joking when he suggests that perhaps sites like Facebook and MySpace should require members to use a credit card to sign up for access as a way to prove their identity.