Obama To Give Commerce Department Authority To Create Internet ID for Americans

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STANFORD, Calif. (CBS News) — 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 here today.

It’s “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.

That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.

The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke.

The Obama administration is currently drafting what it’s calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which Locke said will be released by the president in the next few months. (An early version was publicly released last summer.)

“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.”

The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html

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The first step for the government to control what you see on the Internet, Obama’s Orwellian agenda.
 
webbway said:
STANFORD, Calif. (CBS News) — 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 here today.

It’s “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.

That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.

The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke.

The Obama administration is currently drafting what it’s calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which Locke said will be released by the president in the next few months. (An early version was publicly released last summer.)

“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.”

The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html

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The first step for the government to control what you see on the Internet, Obama’s Orwellian agenda.
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I have to admit as ones age creeps up the memory isn't what it used to be. It would be nice to have one PIN for multiple accounts.
 
apple0154 said:
I have to admit as ones age creeps up the memory isn't what it used to be. It would be nice to have one PIN for multiple accounts.
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Why not set it up that way yourself? Any account I have (and I do have a goodly number of widely various types) allow me to set my login parameters, from user name to password.

Personally I use 2 passwords of varying levels of complexity, depending on the purpose of the site. Anything financial has the more difficult password while things like this have the easier.

Many shopping sites allow the use of outside payment sites, such as PayPal, so you do not need to send out sensitive information to everyone you shop from.

In short, we can do this kind of thing for ourselves. We do not need Big Mommy Government nosing their way into every damned thing we do.
 
apple0154 said:
I have to admit as ones age creeps up the memory isn't what it used to be. It would be nice to have one PIN for multiple accounts.
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you're insane, aren't you.

seriously, are you insane?

you do realize that the government having this type of control over internet access/content is exactly what orwell was talking about, right?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
you're insane, aren't you.

seriously, are you insane?

you do realize that the government having this type of control over internet access/content is exactly what orwell was talking about, right?
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I didn't know that Orwell mentioned the internet in his writings.
 
Good Luck said:
Why not set it up that way yourself? Any account I have (and I do have a goodly number of widely various types) allow me to set my login parameters, from user name to password.

Personally I use 2 passwords of varying levels of complexity, depending on the purpose of the site. Anything financial has the more difficult password while things like this have the easier.

Many shopping sites allow the use of outside payment sites, such as PayPal, so you do not need to send out sensitive information to everyone you shop from.

In short, we can do this kind of thing for ourselves. We do not need Big Mommy Government nosing their way into every damned thing we do.
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Isn't it risky? How often do you change the password? Thanks, I am not technically sophisticated.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
you're insane, aren't you.

seriously, are you insane?

you do realize that the government having this type of control over internet access/content is exactly what orwell was talking about, right?
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Control?

I don't know what you mean by control. I understand the idea to mean government or law enforcement will be able to "recognize" people. That's not control.

Authorities are able to find out phone numbers. Video cameras capture people speaking out and demonstrating. Why shouldn't there be a way to determine who's who on line?

I realize IP numbers can locate the computer but why not have a way to identify the exact user? Unless I missed something about the plan??:confused:
 
this is a horrible idea

one of the great powers of the internet is anonymity, now obama wants to know what citizens are up to on the internet....

very orwellian
 
Yurt said:
this is a horrible idea

one of the great powers of the internet is anonymity, now obama wants to know what citizens are up to on the internet....

very orwellian
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Law enforcement can find out what people are up to right now. People are tracked all the time. The problem is it takes a lot of time and money and some companies and people can not afford to do that.

For example, people who sell stuff on the net. Even Pay Pal, which advertises ones purchase is "guaranteed", has fine print which I recently found out. I placed an order and never received it. I contacted Pay Pal. They promised to investigate. A week or so later they contacted me and said I "won" my case. They believed I did not receive my order as they couldn't contact the company.

"Great", I mistakenly thought. Now I'll get a refund.

Not exactly. The only way Pay Pal refunds is if they can collect the money from the crooks. Once Pay Pal has deposited the money in the crook's account and the crook has cashed out.......too late.

"What kind of guarantee is that", I asked. "If you catch the crook and am able to get my money then you give it back to me. You call that a guarantee?"

Anyway, I contacted my Visa and explained it to them. Three days later my Visa account was credited.

A couple of days later Pay Pal emailed me to say Visa had contacted them regarding my account. They never said why but obviously Visa took the money from Pay Pal. :lol:
 
apple0154 said:
Control?

I don't know what you mean by control. I understand the idea to mean government or law enforcement will be able to "recognize" people. That's not control.

Authorities are able to find out phone numbers. Video cameras capture people speaking out and demonstrating. Why shouldn't there be a way to determine who's who on line?

I realize IP numbers can locate the computer but why not have a way to identify the exact user? Unless I missed something about the plan??:confused:
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I realize that most people like to believe that law enforcement is actually out there to serve and protect, but that's just not the way it is anymore. Times have changed and government takes any and every step to encroach upon your freedoms. establishing ID's will be just a first step. Once they have the ability to track what you do, it's a simple matter of changing regulations to entrap you in to a crime, OR, the continued attempt at regulating the internet could then be used to filter out content on the net according to your internet ID.
 
I still have to believe in law enforcement, I have several friends who are police or safety and they are very good people who truly wish to serve and protect.
 
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