Sunday, January 9, 2011
The Coming Internet National ID Card
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."
Don't believe this for a nanosecond.
According to CBS, Schmidt stressed 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.
The anonymity under this program, mark my words, will be the phony
"freedom option" that the government now always uses when they
want to take away some of your freedoms. It is all part of the 'nudge'
philosophy of the White House adviser and evil puppet master, Cass
Sunstein.
What they do is 'nudge' you in the direction they want you to go in and
offer a phony distasteful alternative. I was
among the first to warn about this in relation to TSA body scanning
versus the "groping" option. It looks like it's coming to
internet ID. It's not clear how they will do it, but the default for most
of the internet will be the ID option. The opt-out anonymity option will
be difficult and distasteful, that's how government works when Cass
Sunstein gets involved. For all practical purposes, internet anonymity
will be gone.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/01/coming-internet-national-id-card.html
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