Posted on 01/15/2011 6:17:00 PM PST by Right Wingnut 2
Big brother might be just around the corner. Secretary of Commerce Gary Loche announced on January 7 plans for a National ID Card for the internet.
Their plan is straightforward. Instead of logging onto Facebook or one's bank using separate passwords established with each individual company or website, the White House will take the lead in developing what it calls an "identity ecosystem" that will centralize personal information and credentials. This government-approved system would issue a smart card or similar device that would confirm an individual's identity when making online credit-card purchases, accessing electronic health care records, posting "anonymous" blog entries or even logging onto one's own home computer, according to administration documents.
Here is the biggest laugh of all:
Officials insist this would be a voluntary program and deliver significant benefits to the public.[...]
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Someone’s been reading their Steyn.
Post of the day. The British government actually does this.
Some of us have never banked online.
This is a slippery slope. What’s next? Requiring a birth certificate to get one of the ID’s?
Post of the day, week, month and year. This is one issue upon which democrats are united and stand firm. Voter ID means the elimination of dead people voting, fake name voting, and voting multiple times at different polling places.
Accurate and true control of voter data is unacceptable to democrats and should be the ID they are talking about instead of the one they are talking about that is meant to suppress free speech on the internet.
Let’s all remember the precedent for this has been in place for decades. One must obtain a license to bear arms in most states, if they let you at all. So much for the second amendment being a “God-given” right.
What is wrong with libtards and libtrash getting a license showing they are of sound mind before they spew their nonsense as “freedom of the press”?
The walls have ears (or will shortly).
It’s satire. There are no plans to put 2D barcodes on your forehead, I made that up to be funny...and a bit provocative.
This whole idea is wrong, but! it would have saved Dan Rather’s butt if the MSM and Dems had known who Buckhead and Tanker KC were in meatworld, they could have NBC remote trucks and ACORN outside their homes in 25 minutes as a gentle reminder to shut up.
Another form of Cap-and-Trade on opinions!
Could you imagine having to register your tounge to excersize your 1st amendment rights?
“How about an ID to vote?”
That, actually, is up to each state. There is no national election.
And, 0bama sets this up in Commerce, and Commerce has nothing to do with voting. Too clever.
Work at the state level for picture-ID-to-vote.
How about they stick to their enumerated duties like protecting the borders and balancing the budget.
>>Some of us have never banked online.<<
Why not? The gummit can get your bank account information whether or not you use a secure server to do your transactions.
To say nothing of private bbses, private wireless networks, etc. I wish those ibecile feds would spend a little more time worrying about the Chi-Coms. We know what happened as a result of Clinton turning all our security agencies against Americans who oppossed him rather than the building external threats we should have been addressing. We’re going to pay a terrible price for this misdirection of assets, and the survivors will know exactly who to blame.
It’s not secure. Call me old fashioned but I prefer to keep my banking off the net.
The internet is for entertainment, and communication. Everything else I try to keep as far away from it as possible.
FUBO!
Bring back the speakeasy... ;)
It’s not just about the anonymous blogging, it’s also about the money. The Commerce department is in charge of this and the main reason they want it is to get you to pay taxes on your online purchase. Of course it will be “voluntary” but only in the sense that you don’t have to buy online. The government will make an offer that businesses can’t refuse and the businesses will require you to have the government ID to buy from them. Democrats love new revenue streams.
Can we pick our noses in front of that camera? Goodness! That’s too much!
>>It’s not secure. Call me old fashioned but I prefer to keep my banking off the net.<<
I have been doing online banking for 20 years without a single problem.
Can you point to a single time the Internet has been successfully used to do bank fraud or theft?
The only ones I know of have been idiots who reply to Phishing.
There is not a documented case of an inflight transaction or set of transactions being usurped on the Internet — SSL does work.
The use of the Internet is a a portal to attack the institutions themselves, not inflight transactions.
In fact, how do you know the bank teller isn’t writing down your deposit number for nefarious purposes? That is highly more likely than an electronic SSL transaction being usurped.
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