bo wants internet ID for all Americans.

[powderman]

Obama Administration Reportedly Plans to Create Internet ID for All Americans


Published January 08, 2011
| FoxNews.com

AP
Jan. 7: President Obama talks about the latest reports showing a decline in the unemployment rate as he highlights his economic policies in a speech on the factory floor of the Thompson Creek Window Company in Landover, Md.

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."

[Pat/Rick]

Will kenya or hawaii issue the ID ?      

[lakota]

I smell an opportunity for a new fee/tax.

[Dixie Dude]

Every computer has an ID on the CPU and stuff can be traced to the computer now.  It takes a little time, but they can track down people already who create viruses and prosecute them.  If they use a computer at a college library, they can't, but if it is owned by someone, they can.  With the ID, they can have more control.  We who own guns or disagree with what the government is doing can be tracked down more easily.  We may need to email and write in to the commerce department to stop this.