AT&T and Verizon want to manage your identity across websites and apps

Enlarge / Project Verify would let you confirm or deny logins for other apps and websites. (credit: Project Verify)

The four major US mobile carriers have unveiled a system that would let them manage your logins across any third-party website or app that hooks into it.

"Project Verify" from a consortium of AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile US, and Sprint, was unveiled in a demo yesterday. It works similarly to other multi-factor authentication systems by letting users approve or deny login requests from other websites and apps, reducing the number of times users must enter passwords. The carriers' consortium is putting the call out to developers of third-party apps and websites, who can contact the consortium for information on linking to the new authentication system.

"The Project Verify app can be preloaded or downloaded to the user's mobile device," a video describing the technology says. "And then when they face a login screen on their favorite sites and apps, they select the verify option. That's it-Project Verify does the rest."

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