Monday, January 10, 2011

The Coming Internet National ID Card

Robert Wenzel
Economic Policy Journal

President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said, according to CBS News TechTalk.

It's [the Commerce Department] "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

The Obama administration is currently drafting what it's calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which  U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said will be released by the president in the next few months.

CBS goes on, "We are not talking about a national ID card," Locke said at the Stanford event. "We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities."

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4 comments:

John said...

The fella's not heard of OpenID then?

Anonymous said...

Parasite Obama and the murdering scum who got him into the white house want to make sure you do not decent...Or they will bury you alive in one of their cages they call "jail".

Anonymous said...

The US government wants so bad to turn the internet into another useless piece of crap that's only use to to make rich people richer and everyone else poorer and stupider.

Anonymous said...

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for temporary security desrve neither liberty nor security"
Ben Franklin

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