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Facebook Wants to Issue Your IRL Offline ID & Internet Driver's License.
DaltheJigsaw
Mountain View Veteran
At the start of this year, it seemed as if Facebook wanted to utilize its identity infrastructure already on millions of websites in order to issue your Internet driver's license. Apparently that wasn't aiming quite high enough, since it now appears as if Facebook has future plans to issue your offline identity cards as well. Facebook filed for a trademark for "goods and services" to use Facebook on "cards, namely business cards and non-magnetically encoded identity cards" that could be read by NFC and RFID-enabled devices. If that didn't make you shiver, then the new trademark application states, the "business card and identity card design services" and "printing services" would be for "facilitating social and business networking through the provision of data for use on business and identity cards."
Like Google Plus, Facebook regards pseudonyms as a sin and wants to kill off anonymity. Many sites have cut back on comment spam, though, by requiring Facebook Connect which in turn requires a user's real identity. Countless millions of websites have avoided the headaches and hassles of managing their own identity system by implementing the free and easy code for Facebook Connect to manage online identities. In fact, logging in, "liking" and sharing via Facebook has literally become a critical part of the Internet's identity infrastructure.
Another emerging potential giant gamer-changer is the ability for people to use their mobile devices with near field communication (NFC) technology to interact with everyday situations, objects and people. NFC can be used to exchange data between two devices that are close to each other. The Google Wallet app is expected to be huge since it will store virtual copies of your credit cards for easy and fast payment at checkout. Other eCommerce NFC apps could be used for boarding passes or for purchasing airline, movie, concert, or other event tickets. On the social networking side, NFC allows for fast file sharing, to pass out electronic business cards, to enter a multiplayer mobile game, or to "touch NFC devices together to Facebook friend each other."
Why wouldn't Facebook want to take advantage of its "identity management" to conquer the offline world as well? The filed trademark suggests the Facebook ID cards could work with NFC and RFID. "Smart tap" RFID and magstripe products "have been used in many different fields, such as finance, telecommunications, security, tax, parking, hospitals, retail and hotels." Even Windows 8 will include built-in NFC functionality, sending hardware and software firms scrambling to take advantage of the tap-to-share NFC RFID functionality.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/78955
Like Google Plus, Facebook regards pseudonyms as a sin and wants to kill off anonymity. Many sites have cut back on comment spam, though, by requiring Facebook Connect which in turn requires a user's real identity. Countless millions of websites have avoided the headaches and hassles of managing their own identity system by implementing the free and easy code for Facebook Connect to manage online identities. In fact, logging in, "liking" and sharing via Facebook has literally become a critical part of the Internet's identity infrastructure.
Another emerging potential giant gamer-changer is the ability for people to use their mobile devices with near field communication (NFC) technology to interact with everyday situations, objects and people. NFC can be used to exchange data between two devices that are close to each other. The Google Wallet app is expected to be huge since it will store virtual copies of your credit cards for easy and fast payment at checkout. Other eCommerce NFC apps could be used for boarding passes or for purchasing airline, movie, concert, or other event tickets. On the social networking side, NFC allows for fast file sharing, to pass out electronic business cards, to enter a multiplayer mobile game, or to "touch NFC devices together to Facebook friend each other."
Why wouldn't Facebook want to take advantage of its "identity management" to conquer the offline world as well? The filed trademark suggests the Facebook ID cards could work with NFC and RFID. "Smart tap" RFID and magstripe products "have been used in many different fields, such as finance, telecommunications, security, tax, parking, hospitals, retail and hotels." Even Windows 8 will include built-in NFC functionality, sending hardware and software firms scrambling to take advantage of the tap-to-share NFC RFID functionality.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/78955
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I don't and I am manging to survive in the real world without much problem
*as if it isn't bad enough that it already has facial recognition software...
i blame the epic gunfight happening on the xbox behind me for the distraction.
I use the same login name for every forum I'm a member of, so if anyone really wants to snoop on my online activity, just Google 'vixthenomad'.
Hell, if you REALLY want to delve into my psyche, you could even have a read of my blog: http://shinythingsadhdblog.wordpress.com/
If "they" are that interested in the minutiae of my day to day life, they're welcome to come over and video me doing it. They don't need to spy on me. As long as they give me some gas money, they're welcome to ride along with me wherever I go. I could use the conversation.
Why do we all live in fear of "them" and their spying? I don't get it. Do they care with whom I have sex (or don't have sex)? Do they care what my stools look like? Do they care whether I'm eating my vegetables? Do they care if I buy condoms once a month or once a year? I'm happy to give them that information if they want it...
Didn't think of it that way.
Marketing and selling info for profit for marketing purposes. Selling our information to big companies.
Perhaps, one day, someone from Facebook will come to my house and inform me that I am under arrest because I 'liked' something that subverts the system. It should be an interesting experience. Dystopian futures have always fascinated me.
But yes CCTV, I come from England and you would not believe what they have rigged up on that rock. Most cities now have 'fish-net' which is a setup of cameras around the perimetre of a city, they read every single licence plate of any veichle coming in or out of the city. From that they can get a shed load of information on you with a few clicks of a keyboard.
I would quote that section of the introduction, but I have insomnia and have only eaten once today and have had no valium, so at present feeling rather weak.
*BACK* in the, *BACK* in the, *BACK* in the USSR! To quote the Fab Four.
*GASP* There may be Blue Meanies loose on this forum! :eek:
Not a good idea to say anything provocative. Like making the wrong kind of jokes in the airport security line.
Sorry, I didn't mean to rain on your parade. Maybe we could assign MindGate to mess with their minds--he's the one who's participating on Muslim chatrooms as a Muslim. Then as an atheist, or agno-atheist, or Crypto-Gnostico-Atheo-Something. That oughta keep the Blue Meanies busy.