The White House Wants to Issue You an Online ID - driver's license for the internet

[JDPriestly]

78. Yes. That is what this is.

If you disagree with me, then please tell me what you think this is. One sentence answers are not a contribution to the discussion on the internet. Please explain your comment and elaborate on your thought.

When you use a password, you express an expectation of privacy. The government has no legal right to violate your expectation of privacy with regard to things that you make an effort to keep private -- such as accounts on the internet for which you use a password.

We do not need licensing to use the internet. If this program should be created, it would be because the government knows full well that its surveillance of our internet use on accounts for which we have passwords is most likely illegal.

This program would be a trick to try to eliminate our claim to privacy as we use the internet.

Also, I think that conservatives and liberals alike will agree that the money on such a program would be a total waste.

We need toll-free highways, not internet ID cards. This program would be a waste of money. It would not insure safety on the internet. To the contrary, it would ease theft on the internet. We would effectively each have some sort of numerical identification when we are using the internet. Why? Because the internet is based on numbers and numerical sorts of values. 1 and 0 for example. So an internet ID card would not solve the problem of internet theft and viruses.

Such a stupid, low idea. It really leaves me quite annoyed. And people are foolish enough to think that one ID would be better than their passwords. It would not be.