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posted ago by winn ago by winn +79 / -0

...The law also requires a vast national database linking all of the ID records together. Once the IDs and database are in place their uses will inevitably expand to facilitate a wide range of surveillance activities. Remember the Social Security number started innocuously enough but it has become a prerequisite for a host of government services and been coopted by private companies to create massive databases of personal information. A national ID poses similar dangers; for example because "common machine-readable technology" will be required on every ID the government and businesses will be able to easily read your private information off the cards in myriad contexts.

...the IDs and database will simply create an irresistible target for identity thieves.

https://www.eff.org/issues/real-id


The point, motherfuckers: "Real ID", or whatever it ends up being called, should ONLY be for government employees, and it should be mandatory, instantly scannable by citizens upon request to see a badge, and the database should be locked under NSA-level encryption or greater.

WE THE FUCKING PEOPLE SHALL NOT BE SUBJECTED TO THIS NATIONAL ID BULLSHIT. WE ARE NOT THE ONES WHO NEED TO IDENTIFY OUR FUCKING SELVES. GET YOUR GODDAMN HEADS OUT OF YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES, PLEBS.

ICYMI, https://nitter.poast.org/AnnaRMatson/status/1910456556384068050

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