The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace has been released and there are some differing opinions on whether it’s a good or a bad thing. In the first in a series of podcasts exploring the strategy, Jim Harper, director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, doesn’t think it’s a good idea. The author of Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood says that any online identity scheme needs to come from the private sector with no government involvement.

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