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> If that happens, everyone is screwed anyways, what difference does it make if your passport has a machine readable chip?! The difference it makes is that wit
by wott 5y ago
> If that happens, everyone is screwed anyways, what difference does it make if your passport has a machine readable chip?!
The difference it makes is that with such tech, I wouldn't have been born because my grand-parents would have been executed and my mother sent to a KZ, for they couldn't have easily forged various more or less believable identity papers and they couldn't have benefited of hard to cross-check databases.
But what is it, in regard of the convenience of going 2 minutes faster through customs check during the yearly holiday across the ocean, after all?
- sofixa 5y agoAnd going by that logic, nothing would ever be done. We don't live in Nazi Germany, and it's our responsibility to not allow the countries we live in to use it for inspiration, not to avoid anything that could have been abused under that regime. Going by your logic *which btw would be impossible to impose today, however hard to cross-check databases you make, a tyrannical government would find a way to cross-check them), we shouldn't have banking, debit/credit cards, mobile phones, the Internet, digital services, online ordering, etc. > But what is it, in regard of the convenience of going 2 minutes faster through customs check during the yearly holiday across the ocean, after all? It's not 2 minutes, it's the whole flow - having seen it implemented in some airports, the automatic queue is much faster than the one with physical border police checking your ID and looking at you. And you're conveniently ignoring the other main use case, verifying your identity securely to be able to do bureaucratic stuff from the comfort and convenience of your home, without having to take time and queue up in an office somewhere.