NIST's Grant under Fierce IT heatlamp for NSTIC's similarities to Federal Identity Credential Access Management Roadmap (FICAM)

READ IT : FGIT Q&A with Jeremy Grant on NSTIC implications for government IT

Here is the bottom segment of a letter I submitted to NIST in lieu of public comment.

"Please reconsider the NSTIC program for an Interagency security use within the walls of the government sector as policy. It simply isn’t a very appropriate amenity for mainstream civilian living. It has a place and a market, but it should be appropriated to places where surreptitious demand for ID is required already.

NSTIC will face a lot of opposition for coaching this society to upsurge identity requirements for absolutely everything they do for the sake of commerce."

Here is a copy of the FICAM Roadmap.  Explore the similarities between FICAM & NSTIC today!

REDUX: national ID news from Egypt, Africa, Japan and the EU

FROM EGYPT

"In a sign of their new-found confidence, many protesters held up their national ID cards or passports to news cameras, a show of bravery just days after police were detaining and raiding the homes of activists." 

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NORTH AMERICA

• Trusted Identities in the US: Single sign-on or single point of failure?
• National ID card used to vote in Haiti
• Canada using national ID registry to track their livestock --"Traceability will give our sheep and goat farmers and exporters another tool to demonstrate the high quality of their products and help them compete in the international marketplace," Ontario MP Pierre Lemieux, the federal parliamentary secretary for agriculture, said in Monday's release."

EUROPE

List of EU national ID cards schemes as Germany deploys contactless national ID

MIDDLE EAST
UAE:Over 3m registered for National ID
Afghanistan: Manipulation of national ID cards used to recruit underaged for armed conflict

AFRICA

Ghana moves forward on national ID issuance
Sierra Leone has complaints against national ID systems

ASIA
On Japan's national ID number system proposal  --The government was to announce, possibly on Friday, a set of basic principles for the proposed introduction of a national identification number system as a means of tracking individual citizens' social security, income and asset information for welfare and taxation purposes.

FLOGGER AV: Immigration reform goes biometric

BTC -For anyone who has not seen Jim Harper's "live" delivery on anti-Real ID rhetoric.  Airtight.

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