Comments on: Feds propose consolidation of personal info in databases

The U.S. government is working to consolidate how it collects, uses, and protects personal data about citizens and federal employees.

[Dalkorian]

Big brother is watching you and knows what's best. Take it like a sheep.

[skswave]

There is an enourmous opportunity for Goverment to support the Trusted platform module as part of the authentication to PII. The TPM which is now on over more than 250 million PCs world wide cost the goverment nothing to deploy but will hold compatible credentials to the current smart card schemes. This technology which is already manadated by DOD for all contractor computers sing July of 2007 provides an industry standard method for Storing authentication keys and is already in the hands of most Local State and federal workers and contractors. TPM is a key technology to realizing a strong authentication Scheme and Goverment should solidly require the use of this technology.

Steven Sprague

[umbrae]

As long as this information will have a high level of security and will not be hackable by children or mentally disabled like in the past.

[scdecade]

Waste of money. Unconstitutional. Typical.

[TV James]

The only solace we have is that the same groups that allowed 3,000 -- that's all? Must not be counting excel spreadsheets saved on desktops -- databases to proliferate are the ones who will now be charged with fixing it.

If they were to succeed, it would be too cumbersome to use, be 25 years out of date by the time it was complete, trillions over budget, hacked within seconds and accidentally erased by some jury services clerk who impatiently kept clicking their mouse while waiting for the system to respond.

But, like most other large scale projects the government has embarked on (IRS computer system, FBI computer system, Iraq war), it will end up costing millions, produce nothing, make private contractors rich.

[UITD]

I am POSITIVE they'll outsource this to people in India or China or Vietnam.... Why pay Americans to do this work when you can pay cheaper, less qualified people in "CHINDINAM" and get crap quality for it AND ALSO wonder where all of the jobs are going.

Ever notice how NOT ONE of these two running for President mention anything to do with how outsourcing has destroyed our economy? Forget about sub-prime crap. You have outsourcing so rampant that our tax base has been eroded so badly that the government needs to up the tax rate even more just to keep up?

Idiots. Guarantee you that they'll do it. The City of Arizona's idiot IT Director already outsourced their tax-system to India. Nice, eh. Like I said - idiots.