You may not have heard of the EEV. And with any luck, you won't find yourself ever having to deal with it. Nonetheless, it is worth keeping an eye on.
Phil Windley points us to the idea of an Electronic Employment Verification (EEV). In essence, a big data base in the sky that would require all employers to "verify" that an employee can work in the United States.
Phil goes on to make the point that whatever your personal stance on illegal immigration, just the *idea* that we would create (at a Federal level) a database of employee information is dangerous. Dangerous for two reasons: 1) it makes that data much more valuable and, thus, more prone to theft; 2) the test project is already running a 4.1% error rate.
That "error rate" means that 11,000 people EACH DAY would be mistakenly classified as ineligible to work in the U.S.
All one needs do is look at how complex an identity management implementation is for an enterprise, and you'll quickly understand why implementing what amounts to "identity management" for the entire country is beyond workable.
--Eric Norlin
