NSTIC’s Effect on Privacy and Security
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is a government-coordinated, private-sector initiative to launch a nationally interoperable framework of independent federated identity systems. If implemented properly, NSTIC could improve privacy. However, this whitepaper finds that in its current form NSTIC will create new methods to commit identity theft; a false sense of control, privacy, and security among users; new ways to covertly collect users’ personal information; and new markets on which to commoditize human identity.