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[arib]

Am I the only person I know who doesn't really have much of a problem with a national ID card?

(for the record, I *do* have serious problems with some of the stuff they're considering including as the content on those cards, but a national ID card as a concept doesn't bother me.)

Comments

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

so it’s ok to have an ID card as long as such a card doesn’t have your name, picture, or other identifying material on it?

not much of an ID card then, is it? :)

seriously, though - what information should be on such an ID card, and in what format?

-steve

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

I meant not encoding information on a chip. Name, picture, DOB, Address.

Oh, wait! We have those already...Shucks! Our government has reinvented the wheel again. =P

Huzzah!

The Vortex

[arib.livejournal.com]

Ah, there's the rub. Many states don't require you to put your address on your license for privacy concerns (cops working undercover, judges, lawyers, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc. may choose to have something like this, it's like unlisting your phone number). The proposed ID would require an address. Also, gender. Do you put your biological gender? What about people who are transgendered? Do they put their bio-gender, or their chosen gender? What if they want one and the government requires the other? There have been noises made about *requiring* HIV status on a national ID card. Useful as that might be for emergency medical personnel, I *really* think having that information be anything but voluntary is a horrible invasion of privacy.

See, I've got some concerns.