US Government Begins Rollout Of Its ‘Driver’s License For The Internet’
May 7, 2014
An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.
‘A few years back, the White House had a brilliant idea: Why not create a single, secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites, starting with local government services. The New York Times described it at the time as a ‘driver’s license for the internet.’
Sound convenient? It is. Sound scary? It is.
Next month, a pilot program of the “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” will begin in government agencies in two US states, to test out whether the pros of a federally verified cyber ID outweigh the cons.’
The NSTIC program has been in (slow) motion for nearly three years, but now, at a time when the public’s trust…
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