Identified, a book I've authored about the global rise of digital identification systems, will be out Summer 2013.

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"I don't foresee anything changing, " he says, citing emerging data floods from global positioning systems, radio-frequency identification tags and Homeland Security regulations.

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In the aftermath of the SIFMA conference in New York last month, the CFTC will require LEIs, or LEI Lite (some interim identification standard), for swaps reporting by September while the G20 is asking for global participation in developing the global LEI standard and implementing it by March 2013, a somewhat slower schedule.

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