US President Barak Obama wants to increase Internet Security by creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet. The US government is stressing this is not a national identity card system. New Labour’s plan for biometric identity cards was shelved by the new coalition government. Many banking websites already use your existing card with a chip and pin reader to authenticate your usage. It’s not yet know what for such a card would take but, while the move will be resisted by many libertarian Americans.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/01/obama-wants-internet-id-for-every.html