Let me get this straight...you want to know more about me so that I can trust you? How does that work? If I want to make a transaction then I pay with a credit card or pay pal. This transaction has an identity associated with it. What more does a company need from me? As to me being more comfortable with a site because I am revealing my identity to them, how does that work? Does this mean that when I speak to a stranger on the streets that if I show them my drivers license I can now trust them? If I am not comfortable enough now to do business with them then what would make me comfortable with them knowing who I am? I don't get this logic. It makes no sense to me.
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U.S. eyes Internet user ID system
The U.S. government is proposing an identity-authentication system for the Web, aiming to streamline government operations online and strike down one of the biggest hurdles that keeps people from trusting Internet shopping sites and other such services.
Although some critics attacked the proposed system as a potential tool for more government data collection and citizen monitoring (the Department of Homeland Security is a partner in the project), the impetus appears to be largely financial. The strategy is intended both as a way to save money for the U.S. government by not requiring individual agencies to design and maintain their own identity-authentication mechanisms, and to give users more faith in the trustworthiness of online commerce.
“The reality is that the Internet still faces something of a ‘trust’ issue,” Mr. Locke said last Friday in a speech in Stanford, Calif. “And it will not reach its full potential until users and consumers feel more secure than they do today when they go online.”
The concept of a government-aided identity authentication program may strike some observers as detrimental to user privacy and anonymity, but it could ease improvements in those areas. Many private-sector identity companies have touted such programs as a way for Web users to provide only as much information as needed for a specific task – for example, letting their government representative know they live in the politician’s district, or confirming that they are old enough to buy alcohol, without giving any more personal information away.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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