Terrence,
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:09 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
One often hears the need for a national ID. How exactly is this solving anything? The "hightech" biometric passports introduced in britian are easily spoofed. Besides it requires ALL states on earth to implement and sync their systems to be able to identify probable suspects. There are several dozen rogue states and several more which are ungoverned. a breach in any of these places is all it takes to compromise the system. All that such id solutions will achieve is making dissenters of the status quo easy targets of the state.
I do not agree. We DO need uniform ID for our citizens. As long as you as citizen have control over who can get what info about you, this is extremely important. The KEY OPERATIVE here is you have CONTROL over WHO has ACCESS to the info about you.
Now there is no so much info that is collected either overtly and/or covertly about you which you neither have any idea nor you have any control over.
And AFA technology is concerned, it's always going to neutral.
-- Rgds JTD
With regards,