amxfan
12-28-2009, 09:14 PM
If you have not heard about this yet, the CFR is pushing for the issuing of a IFRD id card. This had been seen by many as the "mark of the beast" as you would not be able to do anything without it. The recent push for this today is due to Militants in Iraq and Afghanistan have used off-the-shelf technology to intercept live Predator drone feeds from the U.S. military. This is a quote take from the CFR web site, that was posted December 28, 2009.
while government agencies issue identity documents for one purpose, the private sector often adopts those documents for other uses. Driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, and passports have all become de facto credentials used in commercial transactions. Explicitly allowing the commercial sector to used government-issued credentials for high-risk transactions (or to create their own robust commercial credentials) could reduce fraud while increasing security and privacy. Most important, the use of digital identifications reduces the need to authenticate people based upon personal, private details about themselves. Their use would mean we could reduce the transmittal, storage, and use of private information to identify individuals, thus increasing privacy and helping prevent crimes such as identity theft. This requirement for improved digital credentials would be part of the regulations developed for critical cyber infrastructure sectorsIf you have never heard of this card, or the CFR, please do your homework before thinking this is a good thing.
while government agencies issue identity documents for one purpose, the private sector often adopts those documents for other uses. Driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, and passports have all become de facto credentials used in commercial transactions. Explicitly allowing the commercial sector to used government-issued credentials for high-risk transactions (or to create their own robust commercial credentials) could reduce fraud while increasing security and privacy. Most important, the use of digital identifications reduces the need to authenticate people based upon personal, private details about themselves. Their use would mean we could reduce the transmittal, storage, and use of private information to identify individuals, thus increasing privacy and helping prevent crimes such as identity theft. This requirement for improved digital credentials would be part of the regulations developed for critical cyber infrastructure sectorsIf you have never heard of this card, or the CFR, please do your homework before thinking this is a good thing.