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Everyone has a social security number you could expand that to be the basis for a federal level id system like most other western countries.
by christkv 5y ago
Everyone has a social security number you could expand that to be the basis for a federal level id system like most other western countries.
- brendoelfrendo 5y agoYou could, except currently a SSN is used more like a shared secret or password than a unique identifier. I would think that a green-field approach would be better than stapling yet more functionality onto an overloaded number that was never designed to be used the way we're using it.
- post_from_work 5y agoThe Department of Defense uses EDIPI, which is basically a second SSN-like number used to identify you for less-secure/serious stuff short of healthcare, etc... https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange_Personal_Identifier https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange_Per...