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Privacy is all about authorizing, not authenticating. Verifying and managing access rights–which the privacy component does–is an entirely different issue than verifying a user’s identity. Verifying someone’s identity is a very tricky aspect of authentication.

Therefore, this would not be something to fall under the privacy component.

Reread my first post in this thread (see the “== Description =” section) to see what I wrote about authorizing versus authenticating.