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This headline is actually pretty misleading. From what I've seen of the project, it is not about the government issuing online identities. Rather they've realiz
by daveman692 16y ago
This headline is actually pretty misleading. From what I've seen of the project, it is not about the government issuing online identities. Rather they've realized that people already have identities from services like Facebook and Google as well as banks.
This project is aimed at making it possible for people to interact with government agencies using identities they already have. Some interactions require very little security and knowledge of who a person is (leaving a comment here for example) while others (paying your taxes) require quite a bit.
- thwarted 16y agoIs it really in the best interest of collecting taxes to defer authentication (and even authorization) to a third party such as Google, or even banks?
- daveman692 16y agoI interact with the IRS once a year having to remember a short PIN I created years ago and can't figure out how to change. My bank has a very strong knowledge of who I am partially via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer and because I login to it on a much more frequent basis. It isn't that my bank would change the role of the IRS, but I'd login to the IRS using a strong identity issued by my bank versus this silly PIN I use today.
- chopsueyar 16y ago...or you could use the mail.