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Re:Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's enti... by Pxtl on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:25AM (#28917808)
Yes, I think it's a good idea for government to have that info. Government needs to provide services and manage resources, which means knowing who and where people live, and have a proper ID number to manage that data.

The alternative is for government to have 90% subsets of the same data in a a thousand different databases, one per-department, per-jurisdiction.

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Re:Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's enti... by Arrath on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:27AM (#28918450)
And then Dept A thinks you live here, Dept B thinks you live there, Dept C thinks you have a warrant out for your arrest, and little municipal dept Y.43 thinks you're dead.

Yeah, I can see a few problems with that.

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