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jamieooh
01-11-2012, 08:33 PM
Obama Administration Reportedly Plans to Create Internet ID for All Americans

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/08/report-obama-administration-plans-create-internet-id-americans/#ixzz1jCT0cPl1


President Obama is putting plans in motion to give the Commerce Department authority to create an Internet ID for all Americans, a White House official told CNET.com.

White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt told the website it is "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet.

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is currently being drafted by the Obama administration and will be released by the president in a few months.

"We are not talking about a national ID card. 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," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said at an event Friday at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, according to CNET.com.

Locke added that the Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project.

The move has raised eyebrows about privacy issues.

"The government cannot create that identity infrastructure," Jim Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology told the website. "If I tried to, I wouldn't be trusted."

Schmidt stresses that anonymity will remain on the Internet, saying there's no chance that "a centralized database will emerge."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/08/report-obama-administration-plans-create-internet-id-americans/#ixzz1jCSNoLZv

eaglethebeagle
01-12-2012, 10:39 AM
this is big brother taking over.....how far will all this go before we stand up and stop it?

jamieooh
01-12-2012, 09:28 PM
everyone better stand up in November . if barry gets re-elected you will only be able to afford one of those fancy kim jung un hair cuts

eaglethebeagle
01-13-2012, 04:12 AM
sadly it looks like there is no good competition from the republican side and I am a former republican I cant stand them now either. Fucking both sides are shit and a third party just isnt a real threat either. We were slowly loosing our country and our freedoms but now recently it seems like our freedoms and country are being taken away a lot faster. If obama is reelected we will be in a world of shit very soon.

nastyleg
01-13-2012, 06:05 AM
sadly it looks like there is no good competition from the republican side and I am a former republican I cant stand them now either. Fucking both sides are shit and a third party just isnt a real threat either. We were slowly loosing our country and our freedoms but now recently it seems like our freedoms and country are being taken away a lot faster. If obama is reelected we will be in a world of shit very soon.

Agreed