Computer users' identity information is managed online today by several different data collection agencies. But imagine the freedom people would feel changing their address with one keystroke? Microsoft is working on such technology with its InfoCard identity metasystem. Now IBM, Novell and startup Parity Communications are joining the Eclipse open software foundation and Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society to tackle the challenge.

The three companies and are contributing code to the "Higgins Project," designed to give people more control over their online identity information.

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