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Are we any different? I want to think so but drivers licenses and passports are scanned photos. The California DMV even sells this information.
by CalChris 7y ago
Are we any different? I want to think so but drivers licenses and passports are scanned photos. The California DMV even sells this information.
- jariel 7y agoYes, 'we' are very objectively very different. The motivations, objectives and operational realities of DL's and Passports are all fundamentally different. Even the DMV's sale of data, however unseemly, is in a different category of 'questionable'. The most interesting artefact here is not the difference between the systems, but popular notions of moral equivalence among intelligent people.
- proc0 7y agoJust look up videos on youtube of westerners who live in China so that you can easily understand the giant chasm of difference between the cultures and system. Even if CA does something similar, there are ways to keep your privacy protected, especially if you're willing to go out of your way and get a lawyer. In China you're basically owned by the government and good luck trying to find workarounds without feeling like you're a wanted criminal.
- thereare5lights 7y ago> especially if you're willing to go out of your way and get a lawyer. That is out of reach for the vast majority of Americans