According to Venture Beat, EA has employed 1500 engineers over eighteen month to create a single ID system, Single Identity, which will unify all their games across every platform: PC, Xbox, PS3, even iOS and Facebook.
Among its initiatives, the IRS is now issuing ID theft victims special Identity Protection Personal Identification Numbers (IP PINs), that allow them to distinguish themselves from the fraudsters and get their tax refunds processed.
With the REAL ID Act of 2005, they instituted a de facto national identity system by mandating that records be centralized and state-issued IDs be brought up to a common standard.