US federal government to mandate use of persistent tracking tool for all research work:
Does anyone else find this type of technology inherently invasive and a security problem just waiting to occur?
@rrb I find it useful, it makes life easier.
If you work for any kind of public institution I would imagine your government knows where you are and what you do anyways.
If someone wants to track you and you don't have an orcid, they can just write your name on any publications search engine and find all you did.
To me, it just looks like making life easier to your peers looking for your works, you're not really disclosing any more information than what you already disclose yourself.
That's unless you change name in each article you publish. As far as I know you can use a pseudonym in orcid as well.
@rastinza They also want you to use it for your journal reviews, etc. From my point of view, whenever I hear the term "persistent identifier" alarm bells go off.
I know that my employer has put in place a system to automatically associate publications with me. I would say the publications it associates with me are easily 40% false positives. Much more work than it is worth. We used to give them our revised CVs each year. That was easy to handle. The new "labor saving" approach is opaque and annoying.
Yes. The government knows what I am doing. But, putting in place some sort of tracking cookie run by a shadowy organization just seems wrong. (I am using the word shadowy, because I spent abut 2 minutes trying to figure out who runs it and am confused.)