Are digital IDs really going to help - especially in the context of the current happenings over at Choice Point and Lexis Nexis? There's something about creating a "smart card" for each person, controlled by private companies, that worries me ...

(see earlier posts on ChoicePoint and Lexis)

Experts look to digital IDs to boost Net security: Rampant identity theft is eroding users' trust in the Internet, and could threaten to erase some of the progress companies have made in doing business online, security experts warned Friday.

(Via MacCentral)