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well, in a 300 million inhabitants country, maybe it's time to think about serious unique identifiers. Countries way smaller than that did it.

• lostlogin 10y ago
  Yeah, the whole tattoos-on-arms thing has some deep stigma attached to it and that's not going to be overcome easily.
  • nraynaud 10y ago
    Even Israel has a unique numbering system.
    • lostlogin 10y ago
      Yes, but to be truely useful its needs to be with the person and accessible if they aren't conscious. How do you do that?
• ghaff 10y ago
  You could argue the US already comes close to it given SSN and driver's license numbers. But coming right out and having an official permanent identity number just gives a lot of people the willies. Heck, a handful of states won't even adopt REAL ID to better standardize driver's licenses. I'm not sure I even disagree. Even if the practical effect (for good or ill) is negligible in most cases, it starts to tread a bit too close to "your papers please" and standardized tracking across all systems. Some inefficiency and ambiguity isn't always a bad thing.
  • darkhorn 10y ago
    "Some inefficiency and ambiguity"? Are you serious. Just read comments here. Many people had similar stories.
  • nraynaud 10y ago
    SSN is a nightmare in the US, and was specifically not designed to fill this role. It's too short, has no random segment and no checksum.