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A national ID card scheme has existed for many decades. It’s called a passport. There is no reason a digital equivalent can’t be made using the passport system
by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
A national ID card scheme has existed for many decades. It’s called a passport.
There is no reason a digital equivalent can’t be made using the passport system, and it can be left optional, just like passports are optional.
- logifail 1mo ago> just like passports are optional "Border controls aren’t supposed to exist between EU member states – that’s the promise of the 1985 Schengen treaty. Yet today, travelers routinely face checks when crossing borders within the [European] union" https://euobserver.com/198454/law-professor-sues-germany-for-illegal-border-controls/ https://euobserver.com/198454/law-professor-sues-germany-for...
- lotsofpulp 1mo agoWhat relevance does that have to the US federal government offering a digital ID verification system on top of existing passport infrastructure? EU did border checks without digital IDs being a thing, so why couldn’t US states do a border check without digital IDs? Digital IDs are not a causal factor for these concerns, seeing as how those government abuses already happen without digital IDs.