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So an indexed online database that doesn't use numbers. Sounds almost worse than the ATF gun sales database that is forbidden from keeping electronic records.
by sandworm101 3y ago
So an indexed online database that doesn't use numbers. Sounds almost worse than the ATF gun sales database that is forbidden from keeping electronic records.
- rpmisms 3y agoThe ATF being required to keep paper records only is a feature, not a bug, specifically mandated after the absolute fiascos of Ruby Ridge and Waco. Regulators decided that giving them less power was probably wise.
- Muromec 3y agoWell, it does use numbers and they are permanent once issued. The difference is what you call those numbers, how you issue them and what is the UX around them. Don't want to have a federal id? Sure, here is your federated id prefixed with TX-, with all the PII stored in a datacenter in your state. Don't want to have another id issued? Sure, type in the number of your driver license issued when you were 16 years old. Don't like numbers at all? Okey, type in your baptism name, dob and the name of the church or apply through a snail mail. It's not like Europe has a pan-european id issuing authority or a single unique number to identify a person through all of the databases on a continent. Even if did, some people would still have another identity number in US to open an account there.