Welcome to the golden age of bot farming
The bots that populated those old botnets and troll farms were just so difficult to build. So labor intensive – and skill intensive! Just ask Sutton Smith how hard it is to create fake people who are convincing enough to get you to believe what their client wants you to believe.
Artificial Intelligence – AI – changes all that. Soon you’ll have army of fake friends, each of whom knows more about you, your habits and secrets and opinions, than your own mother does. That’s because they all have access to the huge database about you that’s been collected from all your liking and friending and commenting and joining and buying and viewing and following and unfollowing over the years.
Your BOWKYs (Bots Who Know You) are coming for you. They’ve been hired by an organization that wants you to believe something or do something – and they know exactly how to go about doing that. This site is here to show how a set of methods and technologies can keep humans in control of the digital world – and you in control of information about yourself.
Your BOWKYs Are Coming For You
Beware Your BOWKYs
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
— Voltaire
No Tracking Pixels or Beacons
Today's internet has become infested with hidden trackers — tiny “pixel beacons,” scripts, and device tracking tools designed to follow you without your knowledge.
As a Member Enterprise of The Authenticity Alliance, the operator of this website uses no tracking pixels, no beacons, and no covert identity-reporting mechanisms of any kind.
What is Authenticity™?
The word “Authenticity™” identifies a digital or physical space of “accountable anonymity” in which people enjoy both privacy for themselves and accountability from others.
Authenticity™ is the condition that exists in a space where there are
- Digital Signatures Everywhere backed by
- Measurably Reliable Identity Certificates that are
- Owned by their Users and which provide
- Privacy via Accountable Anonymity.
Learn about digital signatures and identity certificates in this short video →
What is The Authenticity Alliance?
We are an Authenticity Growers Cooperative
Similar to familiar agricultural cooperatives in the physical world, The Authenticity Alliance is a network of enterprises and individuals whose purpose is to “grow” Authenticity and bring it to the digital world.
Each Authenticity Enterprise—that is, each Member Enterprise of the Alliance—solves a particular inauthenticity problem in its chosen target market or audience.
What Does The Authenticity Alliance Do?
The Alliance brings together independent enterprises that share a common mission: creating spaces of accountable anonymity where digital signatures, reliable identity certificates, and privacy protection work together to solve real-world inauthenticity problems.
WHO is the Authenticity Alliance?
The Authenticity Alliance is comprised of two groups working together to promote trust and transparency across digital ecosystems.
- Enterprises: Authenticity Enterprises that provide Authenticity solutions for the inauthenticity pains in a specific market or industry.
- Individuals: People who understand the problems of inauthenticity that plague the world’s information systems and who want to help implement and promote Authenticity™ principles.
Authenticity Enterprises
Each is an Enterprise Member of The Authenticity Alliance
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Individual Enterprise in The Authenticity Alliance
Customers and members of an Authenticity Enterprise are automatically eligible to become Individual Members of The Authenticity Alliance.You may also join directly as an individual Member here.