. Living with credit 299 New , interesting products 76 Research , regulation , industry reports 193 Rewards 29 Protecting yourself 126 The fine print 45 Credit card miscellany 318 Print Email U.S . proposes creating an identity ecosystem' Tyler Metzger June 28, 2010 Research , regulation , industry reports As the Internet grows , so does the amount of sensitive data floating around . Day after day , hundreds of thousands of usernames , passwords , dates of birth and yes , even credit card numbers drift around somewhere on this crazy thing we call the Internet . And as those numbers grow , so does the risk of that data falling into the wrong hands . So the U.S . government , the ol' watchdogs they are , wants to improve the security of your online information by creating an identity