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[tw]

Originally posted by tw
Its much like the "funeral mentality". We don't do something until enough people have died.

That is the point. Few people will die from identity theft. Therefore we will not establish a national confirmation system to the benefit of the people. Instead that information will be spread everywhere to be easier for anyone to steal from multiple sources. An ID confirmation system is inevitable. But since people will not die, it will exist in the hoodge-poodge system that already exists - with less benefits and with no privacy protection.

Those who fear for their ID should be banging down the doors demanding national ID confirmation. Instead, and especially because people will not be killed, we will have less privacy and more threats. The picture at the top is exactly what happens when the same data is deciminated everywhere instead of protected in a secure, universally known system intended only for personal ID confirmation.

Again, if you fear government having that information - then shoot yourself. They already have all that information ... in spades. Logic. They have the information but you don't have any benefits from that information.

Therefore we fear the government? Where is the logic in that? I can appreciate the emotional fear. Its just that I don't see a logical arguement - unless we forget that government already has all that information.

Is it an emotional fear of government - or just a myopic perspective of the facts? I could appreciate a good arguement against a National ID confirmation system - except the only arguement that comes close must repeatedly forget that the government already has all that information - and substancially more!