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>Which is insane. The federal government already knows who we are, via SSN, tax returns, and whatever else. The state already knows via tax returns, driver's li
by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
>Which is insane. The federal government already knows who we are, via SSN, tax returns, and whatever else. The state already knows via tax returns, driver's license, and whatever else.
"They can already send a drone to watch you and track your cell location and, and, and, why does it matter if they also slap up a million AI powered cameras?"
The comprehensiveness of the system matters.
- alistairSH 2mo agoNot sure how you jump from "ID with chip" to "AI-based drone and camera network". We can do one without the other.
- skinfaxi 2mo agoThey are already doing the camera thing with flock.
- cucumber3732842 2mo agoThe point was to compare the proposed ID change with the state of surveillance before (bad but still not all that comprehensive) and after Flock et al (more comprehensive).
- mulmen 2mo agoYour failure of imagination doesn’t make national ID a good idea. This is Chesterton’s Fence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_Fence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...