Poll:
Should internet have a digital I.D.. read post
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I see that many have voted for "no" in the poll about the internet ID.
I wonder how many truelly know what an digital internet ID is or how it could/will work.
Despite what Paperless let it seems, an digital internet ID is not a privacy invasion, and it is not a big-brother kind of thing.
For starters, a digital internet ID will not be used everywhere, only on a few selected places. There is no such thing as "that would identify anyone anywhere, like a forum, a game anything..." It simply doesn't work that way.
Saying
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Originally posted by Paperless
Do you think Internet should have a digital I.D that would identify anyone anywhere, like a forum, a game anything... Imagine IP but in a more advanced way with even less privacy each person would have one so each person would need to be identified before using internet via some biometric reader.
gives a totally wrong picture of what a digital internet ID should be.
If it was like that, nobody, even goverments, would be in favor...
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A digital internet ID pass is something certain people can use to be allowed on the internet, nothing more, nothing less. It does NOT reveal your ID at all. It is simply a pass. Think about parents who want to (rightfully) control the access of the internet for their little children.
Another way of use is that it is used on websites to login and to identify if you are a minor or not. Think about the chatrooms where pedophiles would lurk to hunt for minors (one of the major reasons why a digital internet ID is invented/in the makings/tested). A digital ID controlled chatroom would only allow minors on it for example. Again, there is no identity revealing at all; you would only know that there would not be any malicious adults lurking.
A digital internet ID will almost always only work as a more advanced and controlled way of logging in to something, just as you can log in into your own computer with a login name and password.
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Originally posted by Paperless
Internet would be impossible to use without it (if no one hacked it..).
This is not true.
So far for the theory, as a digital internet ID pass is still being tested and not much used (though many people actually already have one)...
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Hence why I think that poll is totally misguided and should at least have been an open poll where this can be discussed, because as it is now it totally misinforms people.
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