ID Card On Its Way
 

http://news.com.com/National+ID+card...3-5573414.html

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveilla...lidsystem.html

http://www.discourse.net/archives/id_cards/index.html



I WILL NOT carry a national, or mandated, ID Card.
FL is trying to institute their own. It is scheduled for May 1st.

While I agree with your stance against ID cards, I can't help but wonder how one is to avoid it if the practice is indeed implimented.

I'm wondering...how would they enforce it? :eek:

If you don't have an ID card they'd limit the benefits you can get from the state. A bit like if you don't have a social security number I would guess.

Depending on when you last got your DL renewed in this state and how up to date your county is, chances are that you've already got one in your wallet. I've had one of the new Hillsboro ones for some time.

I don't like this at all...

I hate how they say it isn't a national ID card because it is voluntary. Yet, if your state decides not to partake in it, you are a nonperson in the eyes of the government.

As far as I can tell, the driver's licence already acts as an ID card. You need it to prove your age, write checks, join organizations, get an FBI background check.... This is one of the things that makes me laugh when people call it "the free-est country". Depends on your definition of freedom.....

As to whether I care.... No, I don't. There is already enough data out there for them to collect what they want to know about me. Sure, an ID card will make it easier. Easier means it should cost less, so more tax dollars available for the really important stuff, no?

I think you said you don't drive any longer? That makes it a lot easier to do.

Most IDs have a magnetic strip in them. Mine "accidentally" got demagnetized. I'm sure any RFID in my ID would "accidentally" get the same (or worse) treatment. Still a shameful erosion of liberties.

When I didn't drive, I needed a "Non-Drivers ID" for a bunch of stuff, especially employment-related.

I don't drive. If I did... there would be a way.
If forced to get one, it would be destroyed immediately, publicly.

Have you seen how tiny they can make RFIDs these days?

That's not pepper on your food...!

Why don't they just take our DNA samples, chip and barcode us all, and get it over with?

One word: microwave :cool:

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