If you are against universal ID or central government databases you're a fucking idiot. IRS has all my tax information from my employers but doesn't have my national health care tax forms for some reason, and I can't get them because the healthcare website can't verify my identity in less than 7-10 days after uploading my passport despite my IRS account knowing my identity and obviously I paid all my taxes using this identity as well as have a federal id that they just can't verify. This is fucking insane and idiotic and anybody that defends this shit should be put in a mental asylum.
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@sun this sounds like more of a problem with the health care web site than any lack of government databases. companies have been using credit reporting agencies, social security numbers and government IDs already to verify identity immediately
@meowski having no privacy laws and having your data in 20+ private databases that all can leak it is worse than just having a smartcard id like dozens of other smaller and better run countries
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@sun experience tells us that the leaks are going to happen whether it's one centralized database or a bunch of smaller ones.
i get that in theory it could be more convenient if everyone is forced to have a standardized computer chip in their possession with some trusted proprietary software running on it, or android/apple phones that aren't rooted running their trusted malware services, but in practice the federal government is incompetent, and more centralized power only leads to more abuse, and these things tend to get cracked and circumvented anyway.
i get that in theory it could be more convenient if everyone is forced to have a standardized computer chip in their possession with some trusted proprietary software running on it, or android/apple phones that aren't rooted running their trusted malware services, but in practice the federal government is incompetent, and more centralized power only leads to more abuse, and these things tend to get cracked and circumvented anyway.