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Here in Brazil the government just fingerprints everyone when they go make an ID card, which they need for everything. No one makes a fuss.
by emiliobumachar 14y ago
Here in Brazil the government just fingerprints everyone when they go make an ID card, which they need for everything. No one makes a fuss.
- derrida 14y agoEurope still remembers the 20th century.
- DanBC 14y agoMost people in the UK were happy at the idea of ID cards. There was a vocal group opposing them, but it wasn't a huge group. The thing that finally killed ID cards in the UK wasn't privacy or technical limitations, but the cost to anyone who wanted one. At £30 most people didn't care. At £100 the scheme died.
- derrida 14y agoPoint noted. I guess 'Europe' is a blanket term. This is different to the attitude in Germany & France I feel, but I may have a skewed view, mostly interacting with hackers when I am over there.