Re:How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportatio...
by rdtsc on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:04PM
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> Fear of tracking
There is already pervasive tracking I am afraid. Having a smartphone, social accounts, banking online, NSA running wild, face recognition tech tested in airports, traffic cameras. At this point, it seems an ID card wouldn't make much of a difference in that area. I have an ID card by being a citizen of another country, I just don't feel like I am somehow tracked more or less free because of it.
> another large federal bureaucracy that is difficult to deal with
I've seen state government being just as dysfunctional and I've seen other countries have even more bureaucratic governments. If they can do it, so can the federal government.
In a way the social security card is already a broken and terrible ID, which is misused and causes billions of dollars in waste every year. So the ID is effectively there, it's just very bad and an in need of an update.
There is already pervasive tracking I am afraid. Having a smartphone, social accounts, banking online, NSA running wild, face recognition tech tested in airports, traffic cameras. At this point, it seems an ID card wouldn't make much of a difference in that area. I have an ID card by being a citizen of another country, I just don't feel like I am somehow tracked more or less free because of it.
> another large federal bureaucracy that is difficult to deal with
I've seen state government being just as dysfunctional and I've seen other countries have even more bureaucratic governments. If they can do it, so can the federal government.
In a way the social security card is already a broken and terrible ID, which is misused and causes billions of dollars in waste every year. So the ID is effectively there, it's just very bad and an in need of an update.