I know what you are saying, but I still think it is a threat to some, and undesired leverage when used appropriately to others. Justice is not always the goal of these laws.

You do not believe the copyright laws on the books, now, in all the nations negotiating this agreement cannot be used to pursue infringement violations against these negotiators, if the words were in a copyrighted tune? Someone is misunderstanding, but not I.

Someone with some music talent should put out a song with the text of the agreement used as lyrics, and charge the negotiators with international copyright infringement and distribution! NOW!

Anyone using this "tool" on their own site could have written it themselves. Instead they choose to give away their viewers activities to a third party to make money off of it. They are paying another company to encourage tool use that disables the functionality of their own web pages and ads. They are helping a third party build a massive database of viewer data.

This is a malware/spyware tool that alters their own viewers' operating system clip board through the use of a web application. If something is selected on their own machine, this tool alters it so the viewer does not know what is in the clip buffer even after they carefully chose to select a particular set of data. This is not going to go over well at all.

Giving Yahoo or any Internet/Service Host a copy of my ID with Birthdate and more..... why not just post your ID on Flickr? Any states left with SSN still printed on state ID cards? Used for Account numbers? An open tiff in an unencrypted email stream?

Do all of their employees with access to incoming bandwidth get background checks? And I do mean any and all workers that have access to incoming bandwidth packets beit the physical wires or any routing machines in addition to any terminals setup for day to day work....?

Too many sites use too little information which is inclusive of some of the information on the State issued IDs for satisfying their requirements of identification. Adding a picture would also be frowned upon. Forget the tinfoil. There are reasons IDs do not come on lanyards for public display where ever one travels in day to day life.

I cannot even count on Yahoo to keep my email address out of the hands of spammers. Why would I send them any official documents of mine? The spam from their email accounts as it is use alphabetic lists of their other users still, just moved to the BCC field so the list is not as noticed as years past.

The problem is real, but you are trying to solve one little glitch when the entire system is currently a hole.

The third party view mentioned (notary) has promise, but not until there is secured communication. Even if it requires PI type services by licensed third parties for problem certification. (ISPs sign up with internet investigation teams to resolve identification issues with their users. Headline on page 3...)