Unique internet ID for all Americans coming--Big Brother will be watching you and know who you are

(The Obama Administration--to whom many bad bad ideas have already been attached--has come up with another incredibly bad idea and way to violate our rights to anonymity. This is another thing Bush would have loved to do that the fake liberal Obama will do. Hope and change feel just as bad as the despair and angst we've felt since 2000. Obama is the antithesis of everything he "stood" for during his campaign, making those who voted for him feel like suckers. Thanks to Matt S. for the share.--jef)

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Obama administration moves forward with unique internet ID for all Americans, Commerce Department to head system up
By Laura June posted Jan 9th 2011

President Obama has signaled that he will give the United States Commerce Department the authority over a proposed national cybersecurity measure that would involve giving each American a unique online identity. Other candidates mentioned previously to head up the new system have included the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security, but the announcement that the Commerce Department will take the job should please groups that have raised concerns over security agencies doing double duty in police and intelligence work. So anyway, what about this unique ID we'll all be getting? Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to a national ID card, or a government controlled system, but that it would enhance security and reduce the need for people to memorize dozens of passwords online. Sorry, Locke, sounds like a national ID system to us. Anyway, the Obama administration is currently drafting what it's dubbed the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which is expected at the Department of Commerce in a few months. We'll keep you posted if anything terrifying or cool happens.--CBS News