{"id":1351,"date":"2011-01-08T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2011-01-08T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:31:53","slug":"obama-eyeing-internet-id-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CBS News reports that the Obama administration is currently drafting the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which will be released by the president in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are not talking about a national ID card,&#8217; says Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose department will be in charge of the program. &#8216;We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Although details have not been finalized, the &#8216;trusted identity&#8217; may take the form of a smart card or digital certificate that would prove online users are who they say they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/01\/08\/1227229\/Obama-Eyeing-Internet-ID-For-Americans\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/01\/08\/1227229\/Obama-Eyeing-Internet-ID-For-Americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CBS News reports that the Obama administration is currently drafting the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which will be released by the president in the next few months. &#8216;We are not talking about a national ID card,&#8217; says Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose department will be in charge of the program. &#8216;We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}