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Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by kiba on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:54AM (#22898203)
We already have driver licenses. It wouldn't be too difficult to expand to driver license plus immunity card.
Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by stronglikedan on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:25AM (#22898764)
I don't know if ID2020 is being proposed as compulsory, but one is not required to obtain a driver's license, or any other form of state issued ID, in the US. If asked to present ID by an officer of the law, merely giving your full name and birth date is sufficient.
Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by hartator on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:09AM (#22899090)
You don’t have to answer even to that if there is no probable cause.
Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by mindslight on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:04PM (#22900183)
> one is not required to obtain a driver's license, or any other form of state issued ID, in the US

Practically, one is required to obtain an ID to do many common activities. Being able to theoretically opt-out of these systems is a fiction that forms a cornerstone of their justification.

Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by triyambakam on Friday April 17, 2020 @08:02AM (#22898255)
Well, what is unique is that this is a tattoo microchip, rather than a card
Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by yters on Friday April 17, 2020 @08:08AM (#22898286)
Where does the website say this? It is quite vague about implementation details, at least from what I can find.

Closest I could find was a conspiracy theory linking a separate study into using quantum dots to record vaccination. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/523/eaay7162

Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by aklhdq on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:31AM (#22899266)
It is not a microchip, but not a conspiracy theory either:

http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218

"Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Koch Institute "

Thankfully this won't fly in Germany, because the Nazis tattooed concentration camp victims with numbers. Not sure about the U.S. though.

Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by crocodiletears on Friday April 17, 2020 @01:32PM (#22901091)
This is exactly the kind of thing the lunatic militias in the 90s were terrified about. Those people are still around, and if you try to give them 'the mark of the beast', for better or worse, there will be blood.
Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by yters on Friday April 17, 2020 @02:25PM (#22901528)
But it is an invisible, beneath the skin imprint, and for a good reason to help with large scale vaccination. And without such vaccination, especially in the case of covid-19, millions could die. Who would argue with such a beneficial and convenient approach?

However, for some reason ID2020 is distancing themselves from this quantum dot approach.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/conspiracy-theory-misinter...

"The Gates Foundation has advocated for expanded testing and has funded vaccine research, but neither of those involves implanted microchips."

Technically true. Quantum dots aren't exactly microchips.

Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by goatinaboat on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:58AM (#22898228)
Or driving licence + vaccinations + eligibility to vote