identity
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America
April 9 - "Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to California on April 16 to deliver remarks at San Jose State University on expanding the cybersecurity workforce."Federalized security screening at airports has been such a success that President Obama wants to apply the same government “expertise” to the realm of online commerce and commentary. The White House cybersecurity adviser joined Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Jan. 7 to announce what amounts to a national ID card for the Internet. Their plan is straightforward. Instead of logging onto Facebook or one’s bank using separate passwords established with each individual company or website, the White House will take the lead in developing what it calls an “identity ecosystem” that will centralize personal information and credentials.
EDITORIAL: Obama's Internet passport - Washington Times
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans (PerfectSpot?)CBS News
(Credit: istockphoto.com) STANFORD, Calif.--President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
Printer-friendly version U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard A.
Secretary Locke, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt to Discuss Next Steps in Cybersecurity | Department of Commerce
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace | The White House
Cyberspace has become an indispensible component of everyday life for all Americans. We have all witnessed how the application and use of this technology has increased exponentially over the years.
Today, at Stanford University, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and I were pleased to announce that the Commerce Department will host a National Program Office (NPO) in support of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). As I’ve written previously , the NSTIC fulfills one of the action items in the Cyberspace Policy Review (pdf ) and is a key building block in our efforts to secure cyberspace. This holiday season, consumers spent a record $30.81 billion in online retail spending , an increase of 13 percent over the same period the previous year. This striking growth outshines even the notable 3.3-5.5 percent overall increase in holiday spending this past year. While clearly a positive sign for our economy, losses from online fraud and identity theft eat away at these gains, not to mention the harm that identity crime causes directly to millions of victims.
A National Program Office for Enhancing Online Trust and Privacy | The White House
The Obama administration is creating an office that will coordinate with the private sector to establish a secure pathway for people, organizations and computer programs to execute online transactions, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced on Friday. The office will be part of a credentialing initiative outlined in President Obama's 2009 cyberspace policy review. Obama is expected to finalize the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace "in the coming months," Locke said. The system is intended to verify the identities of individuals, organizations and applications so they can have confidence in one another when exchanging personal or sensitive information.
Commerce announces new shop to oversee online security - Nextgov
Blackberrys, cell phones and communications devices are tagged with post-its during a briefing on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Cabinet Room of the White House, March 26, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) The upcoming release of the final version of the White House “ National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace ” highlights three key trends that face the world in 2011: online identity, privacy and security. Governments need ways to empower citizens to identify themselves online to realize both aspirational goals for citizen-to-government interaction and secure basic interactions for commercial purposes.
2011 Trends: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace highlights key online privacy, security challenges | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms
Who are you again? - honestlyreal
This online identity stuff is very difficult—as I’ve written here before: much harder to truly grasp than it should be, in a peculiar way. I think that one of the reasons is that there are really two, logically separate things going on. Unless one puts a bit of mental legwork into understanding them—well, almost philosophically —all that follows in terms of technical solutions and so on can be irrelevant, at best.PIN Personal identification number
A personal identification number ( PIN , pronounced "pin") is a secret numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system.
Coauthored by Seth Schoen The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled " National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace " (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the "National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions" and emphasized, reasonably, the private sector's development of technologies to secure sensitive online transactions. But the recent shift to "Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" reflects a radical — and concerning — expansion of the project’s scope.
Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The mathematical underpinnings of the U-Prove technology have been published in the book “Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in Privacy,” authored by Dr. Stefan Brands and published by The MIT Press in August 2000 (ISBN 0-262-02491-8, first edition) with a foreword by professor Ronald L. Rivest .
Stefan Brands Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in Stefan Brands
Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy explores authentication technologies (passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their implications for the privacy of the individuals being authenticated. As authentication becomes ever more ubiquitous, understanding its interplay with privacy is vital. The report examines numerous concepts, including authentication, authorization, identification, privacy, and security. It provides a framework to guide thinking about these issues when deciding whether and how to use authentication in a particular context. The book explains how privacy is affected by system design decisions.
Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
The Identity Project - Wellcome Collection
19 April-12 May 2010 A drama of passion and prejudice featuring Billy Bragg and his band. Maverick theatre-makers On Theatre joined forces with legendary singer-songwriter Billy Bragg to explore English identity and loyalty. 'Pressure Drop' took us to the heart of one family's struggle to define home.After years of having our complaints ignored, we were pleased to be invited by the TSA to participate in the ongoing “Multi-Cultural Coalition” organized by the Office of Traveler Specialized Screening and Outreach of the TSA Office of Civil Rights and Liberties , under the direction of the TSA Office of the Special Counselor. In response to an invitation to submit questions and concerns for the agenda of today’s TSA outreach briefing with this coalition — our first such — we submitted the following questions. We only got notice of the conference call and submitted our questions at the last minute, and didn’t expect these issues to be addressed on such short notice, but we were pleased to be able to put them on the table for TSA consideration, should the agency chose to respond:
the Identity Project
IPprotection =antiPiracy