Redux Intl. Edition: China's real name Internet mandate

NSTIC: Oh.. it's an ID card for  everything online

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A National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service?
c/o Bloomberg

"When China passed a new law two weeks ago requiring people to give their real names when signing up for Internet and phone service, it raised alarms over the surveillance implications for the world’s largest population of Web users. It also highlighted what may be an uncomfortable reality for U.S. netizens: a national digital ID, which essentially is what China is proposing, isn’t entirely a foreign concept. The U.S. is also slowly moving to a system where online personas are inextricably linked to real-world identities, an idea with huge privacy and security implications. 

The tactics and enforcement mechanisms being explored in China and the U.S. are worlds apart, but the central idea is similar: knowing someone’s real name improves accountability online. That’s a double-edged sword, though, depending on who’s doing the accounting. 

The White House’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC, is leading the government’s efforts in this area."

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Biggest prob w/ use/overuse of biometric ID = once it's compromised, your identity is forever at risk. No way to replace #biometricchat A3
— Amie Stepanovich (@astepanovich) January 10, 2013

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STAND & DELIVER: Hernandez takes her business elsewhere

UPDATE 2PM 11/21: Bexar County Judge grants court restraint of expulsion order, in favor of Andrea Hernandez.

c/o GovtSlaves by way of Aaron Dykes at Infowars.com 

"After months of protesting a policy requiring high school students to wear an RFID-enabled ID badge around their necks at all times, Andrea Hernandez is being involuntarily withdrawn from John Jay High School in San Antonio effective November 26th, according to a letter sent by the district that has now been made public. 

The letter, sent on November 13, informs her father that the Smart ID program, which was phased in with the new school year, is now in “full implementation” and requires all students to comply by wearing the location-tracking badges. 

Since Andrea Hernandez has refused to wear the badge, she is being withdrawn from the magnate school and her program at the Science and Engineering Academy, and instead will have to attend William Howard Taft HS, which is not currently involved in the ID scheme, unless she changes her position."

BTC Commentary --  Andrea Hernandez has been the frontrunner in a fight where technology demands unconditional obedience to a hidden instructor.  Whether it's militarized drones or the call of Big Data on your Christmas shopping, you can't turn your neck anymore without some element of the surveillance state wanting something they don't deserve.  Ms. Hernandez is proof there is an evolving market for those who want options to distance themselves from digital surveillance mandates.