[nmh]

But the costs associated with implementing such a system would likely be enormous. The NSTIC has anticipated some kickback and will be offering businesses incentives such as tax credits/breaks, insurance, grants and loans for early adoption.

[wiggen]

The cost of implementing? Whats the cost if China hacks in and steals all the info?

[unixfox]

I'm sure it will be "secured" from government prying eyes and others.

Just like our SS number.

[nmh]

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Keep the GOVERNMENT out of your life even if it means the PRIVATE sector can benefit through work. This is intrusive.

Are we getting closer to George Orwell's 1984?

[EGPWS]

Why not just stamp a number on our foreheads?

[Gaffer]

Easier business transactions, etc. is not the real purpose behind this proposed system. It is a means to quickly identify ANY user, poster, blogger, emailer, etc. on the web and log them in a database (later, when they have the power consolidated for detainment, imprisonment and execution). Go ahead and laugh now, I’m sure the Germans would have used this instead of all the manpower they had to devote catching Jews.

[Fresh Wind]

This ain’t Uncle Sam, it’s Big Brother Barack.

[Cacique]

btt

[dforest]

No, absolutely not.

Go to hell government.

They always try to sell supposed benefits as a reason to track you.

Come on folks, this stuff is not a benefit.

[Oceander]

The Identity Ecosystem would allow Americans to choose to obtain a single authenticated ID for online transactions. Like a passport, this single ID could travel with them online and be used to access everything from e-mail, to online health records and banking information. Furthermore, the Identity Ecosystem would only reveal the least amount of information necessary for each transaction.

This is stupidity on stilts. It will simply make identity theft and identity fraud easier. It will also make it infinitely easier for the government to track us all online - forget "privacy," this is the digital version of the panopticon as dissected by Foucault.

But then, why would anyone expect anything other than a panopticon-like arrangement from the fascists in power? They want to control our health care - our very lives - they want to control whether we can be born - through abortion, which will be "free" under Obastardcare, and most likely coercively enforced eventually - and they want to control our ability to freely express our political views, so this is just part and parcel of their overall attempt to control every aspect of our lives.

A much, much better system is one like the one-time-use numbers some financial institutions offer for their account-holders to use in online transactions.

[meyer]

Uncle “Obambi” wants you to have an internet ID so that he knows where to send his NazEIU thugs when someone dares to speak out against him.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

So far, this proposition seems to rate in popularity somewhere between having a car roll over your foot, and having one’s buttocks depilated with a belt sander, then moistened with fresh lemon juice.

[Soothesayer]

How many months/years until they shut down FR and send us “domestic terrorists” to the work camps?

[FreePaul]

This seems to me just another way for the criminals, including those in government, of gaining more control over people.

[NTHockey]

The biggest cause of identity theft and fraud is the federal government. Despite what it says on the card itself, Social Security cards are used in every phase of our life as identification. The military stopped using serial number and replaced them with SS #. That number is on every travel order, transfer, promotion and discharge. What happens when a member of the armed forces retires or is discharged? His SS# might as well have been posted on the internet for all the good it does.

And if that is not enough, SS # are used as identification on W-2’s, I-9’s, state tax forms, incorporation papers, tax returns, etc. How can any system be secure if we are giving away the keys to the vault?

[Mike Acker]

Online Identification — Careful Consideration needed

Under some circumstances you should use an online identity and this would be for any commercial business— online shopping, paying bills, etc

Under other circumstances anonymity is important. Any time that you wish to express a viewpoint on an issue you will have those for and those against.

it doesn’t matter what your viewpoint is this will be true

it is also true that here in these united States we honor your right to express yourself

and that without being attacked — by the government, or any other group or individuals

in an ideal society you would not be attacked for expressing your views

but no such ideal societies have ever existed, or ever will exist

as a result it is important that we all be allowed to use a nom de plume when expressing our views over the public net

[MarineBrat]

Is this that thing where our glassed jawed cowardly mack daddy who occupies the White House won’t have to keep looking for me to answer my challenge to a duel?

[puppypusher]

Implement that program and the government gets the keys to your kingdom.

[RedMDer]

Mark of the Beast

[Excellence]

Fox News wants your log in and password before you can leave a comment. They have drunk the Kool-Aid.

[Paine in the Neck]

No...NO...ABSOLUTELY NO!