Re: Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

ha ha!  I suspect this is for sales tax on internet purchases.

regards,
-Lance

On Jan 9, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Karl Swenson wrote:

> And maybe they will just plant a chip and a tattoo on your hand to  
> make
> logging in easy....
>
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> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html
>
> January 7, 2011 4:31 PM
> Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
> This story originally appeared on CNET
>
> STANFORD, Calif. - 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
> here today.
>
> It's "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.
>
>
> That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department
> to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates
> including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland
> Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil
> liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual
> roles of police and intelligence agencies.
>
>
> The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for
> Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and
> Schmidt spoke.
>
>
> The Obama administration is currently drafting what it's calling the
> National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which Locke
> said will be released by the president in the next few months. (An
> early version was publicly released last summer.)
>
>
> "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."
>
>
> The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office
> to work on this project, Locke said.
>
>
> Details about the "trusted identity" project are unusually scarce.
> Last year's announcement referenced a possible forthcoming smart card
> or digital certificate that would prove that online users are who they
> say they are. These digital IDs would be offered to consumers by
> online vendors for financial transactions.
>
>
> Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain
> possible on the Internet. "I don't have to get a credential if I don't
> want to," he said. There's no chance that "a centralized database will
> emerge," and "we need the private sector to lead the implementation of
> this," he said.
>
>
> Inter-agency rivalries to claim authority over cybersecurity have
> exited ever since many responsibilities were centralized in the
> Department of Homeland Security as part of its creation nine years
> ago. Three years ago, proposals were were circulating in Washington to
> transfer authority to the secretive NSA, which is part of the U.S.
> Defense Department.
>
>
> In March 2009, Rod Beckstrom, director of Homeland Security's National
> Cybersecurity Center, resigned through a letter that gave a rare
> public glimpse into the competition for budgetary dollars and
> cybersecurity authority. Beckstrom said at the time that the NSA
> "effectively controls DHS cyber efforts through detailees, technology
> insertions," and has proposed moving some functions to the agency's
> Fort Meade, Md., headquarters.
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