> Universal PKI-backed national ID would be a program everyone should be behind I for one am not behind this until we have actual privacy laws with teeth, and

> Universal PKI-backed national ID would be a program everyone should be behind I for one am not behind this until we have actual privacy laws with teeth, and those laws have put a stop to the ongoing widespread abuses of the identification system we already have. As it stands, people's nebulous fear of handing out their DL/SSN numbers is the main thing holding back a deluge of every other business (including websites) demanding your ID for one purported reason or another, but really to augment their surveillance databases.