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Comment on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace by Mark Dixon

Mark Dixon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:27:51 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Robin. It will be interesting to see where this leads.

By the way, congratulations on your new role with Gartner/Burton!

Mark

Comment on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace by Robin Wilton

Robin Wilton — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:58:22 +0000

Good post, Mark. As you know, we’ve had a regime change in the UK, as a result of which the previous strategy on National ID is being drastically overhauled. In principle, the more public awareness and input there is when a revision like that takes place, the better… so I’d encourage your readers to contribute their views on NSTIC via all the various channels the Obama administration is making available.

On specifics:Mr Vinter is partly right, but partly wrong I think. He’s wrong in the sense that NSTIC necessarily results in ‘the US Government’ being able to track all of every citizen’s online activity; implementation of NSTIC would not stop anyone from having other electronic identifiers and credentials which do not form part of the NSTIC infrastructure, for instance.

However, he’s right in the sense that governments have a law-enforcement and intelligence agenda which leads them to want to achieve a joined-up view of individuals when necessary; they also have a service provision agenda which means individuals *may* be better served if their various interactions can be linked. The information management challenge for any government is: how to achieve both those ‘views’ of the same data, while making the first one independent of the citizen’s consent, and ensuring that the citizen’s consent is fundamentally built into the second.

(Incidentally, I don’t think the most technically advanced commercial bodies have cracked that problem on a mass scale, let alone any government crack it on a national scale…)

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Are You a Perfect Citizen? I Will Listen and Find Out. « I Love Freedom — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:54:14 +0000

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:48:25 +0000

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Comment on Copy Machine Security Threat: A Solution by Faith Foster

Faith Foster — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:02:02 +0000

Identity Theft is so rampant these days because it is quite easy to harvest information from someone else.~:;