I am speechless beyond words about this total lack of imagination. So the only ebusinesses endorsed by the government are shopping sites?

Thinking about it, this will probably just strenghten Facebook. Facebook will hide a "consent checkbox" somewhere in their intractable pricavy settings. Then all sites that use Facebook authentication are good to go.

I suppose Facebook might even be able to provide some sort of server side cookie service. Perhaps it could be a JavaScript from Facebook that reads the Facebook cookie from Facebook and sends a hash value to the server. The server can then ask Facebook for the identity. Or something like that.