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No, the issue isn’t religious irrationality — it’s understanding the inherent dangers of a mandatory government identification system and not wanting one. Unfo

No, the issue isn’t religious irrationality — it’s understanding the inherent dangers of a mandatory government identification system and not wanting one. Unfortunately, we have several anyway, but that’s no reason to accept a universal inescapable federal ID that we would never be able to roll back. > I wish the US Gov would sue all Companies and Orgs that used the SSN for ID purposes for trillions and return that amount to people with Social Security Numbers. At least on that we agree. The SSN bas become a poor, backdoor replacement for federal identification documents — which is exactly what people were worried would happen, and why they received the sop of “not for identification”. That didn’t last long: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/weekinreview/the-nation-not-for-identification-purposes-just-kidding.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/weekinreview/the-nation-n...

reidjs 4y ago
What's the downside of a universal federal ID?
- supertrope 4y ago
  If nearly all choices and utterances are linked to the same database and can be used against you in ways that don't even exist today people will feel a strong chilling effect. We have bankruptcy and privacy laws specifically so the owners of these private ledgers and databases do not entirely control our lives. The issuer of an universal ID gains gatekeeping power. Besides the danger of people getting excluded, children and marginalized demographics won't have one. Ironically widespread deployment of an ID can sometimes lead to more fraud. Bureaucracies tend to confuse identification, authentication, and authorization. Possessing a scan of a passport is often accepted as possessing the passport which is accepted as authority to transact with that name. Through the transitive property possessing a hacked .jpg can allow a fraudster to transact as you. When businesses and bureaucracies are not liable for fraud or their errors, they focus on the ID tokens as a way to improve throughput instead of assessing the legitimacy of the transaction in a holistic manner.

reidjs 4y ago

What's the downside of a universal federal ID?

supertrope 4y ago
If nearly all choices and utterances are linked to the same database and can be used against you in ways that don't even exist today people will feel a strong chilling effect. We have bankruptcy and privacy laws specifically so the owners of these private ledgers and databases do not entirely control our lives. The issuer of an universal ID gains gatekeeping power. Besides the danger of people getting excluded, children and marginalized demographics won't have one. Ironically widespread deployment of an ID can sometimes lead to more fraud. Bureaucracies tend to confuse identification, authentication, and authorization. Possessing a scan of a passport is often accepted as possessing the passport which is accepted as authority to transact with that name. Through the transitive property possessing a hacked .jpg can allow a fraudster to transact as you. When businesses and bureaucracies are not liable for fraud or their errors, they focus on the ID tokens as a way to improve throughput instead of assessing the legitimacy of the transaction in a holistic manner.