Posted on 01/12/2011 1:50:18 PM PST by RichSr
Obama Eyes Internet ID for All Americans Monday, 10 Jan 2011 10:40 AM Article Font Size By Rick Pedraza Government monitoring of what Americans are doing in cyberspace has moved a bit closer to reality, as President Barack Obama announces plans to hand over authority to create an Internet ID for all Americans to the U.S. Commerce Department, a White House official tells CBS News. The plan, touted as the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, is raising eyebrows about privacy issues over concerns that creating a centralized database is an infringement on Americans’ rights. It is expected to be released in the next several months. Calling it an “absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to create an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said Friday during a business and academics forum at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research that issuing digital identities for web usage to all Americans will reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke agrees. "We are not talking about a national ID card,” Locke said at the Stanford forum. “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." Schmidt added that his office will work with the Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration to implement the Internet ID strategy. © Newsmax. All rights reserved. Read more on Newsmax.com: Obama Eyes Internet ID for All Americans Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!
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How much will the tax be?
Is this another case where he will go around Congress?
perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords,
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Like BANK passwords.
Easier to invade your privacy in more ways then one.
Congress had BETTER STOP THIS IN IT’S TRACKS RIGHT NOW.
Makes you wonder why that guy was murdered doesn’t it?
Would the tax go DIRECTLY to the country’s debt?
Sure it would. And in some back room, the same number of dollars will be extracted from the current stream repaying the debt. The quietly stolen funds will fund another liberal program. Money streams are fungible. The same thing happened when the lottery was approved in California as a revenue stream for education. The lottery money entered the front door and a similar amount of money magically was reallocated from education back to the general fund. All perfectly legal. The letter of the law was followed.
Would the tax go DIRECTLY to the country’s debt?
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Nope, it’s another scheme like cap and trade—it will be distributed to the poorer countries to help meet WDG by 2015, (Bill Clinton attended and signed on)
ODA-official development assistance.\
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_development_assistance
Millennium Development Goals #8:
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal8.shtml
8:F
Target 8f: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
* 8.14 Telephone lines per 100 population
* 8.15 Cellular subscribers per 100 population
* 8.16 Internet users per 100 population
Also, couple decent articles/blogs:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/klein013006.htm
http://www.caslon.com.au/taxationguide2.htm
Here’s a link to the proposal itself:
www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf
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