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Trans-Atlantic ID Card System

Posted by Zonk on from the hands-across-the-globe dept.

Th3P0stalDud3 writes "The Independent is reporting that the U.S. has asked the U.K. to use the same chips in their proposed identity cards as the ones in our proposed identity card. In effect, creating a trans-atlantic ID card system." From the article: "The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic."

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  1. Elimination of the middle class by panxerox · · Score: 3, Informative

    The federal id system as proposed is a continuation of the process by which the government has been seeking to destroy the underground economy and stratify society to an even greater degree. The id system combined with the coming cashless society, educational divide, locking in of resources from the elimination of the inheritance tax can only end in a resumption of the feudal system or something very much like it. When our economy crashes (who thinks the current walmart economy can really last?) the elimination of the middle class will be complete. At this point the plan put in place by the patrician class will have come to fruition and their power will be unchallenged.

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  2. Already Canada, Mexico, Next CAFTA, UK, All FTAs by Doug+Dante · · Score: 2, Informative
    The US is already working with Canada and Mexico to unify drivers licenses and other identifications.

    With CAFTA and FTAs between US and Australia, and other Free Trade agreements in effect or in progress, including Andean FTA, Australia FTA, Bahrain FTA, Chile FTA, Israel FTA, Jordan FTA, Morocco FTA, Panama FTA, Singapore FTA, and SACU FTA, you can bet that we'll see more of the same with our major trading partners.

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  3. Re:Hey... by sirket · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oceania was one of the superpowers in George Orwell's 1984. The post in no way refers to Australia.

    -sirket

  4. Oh really? by TheConfusedOne · · Score: 2, Informative

    No personal information? Name, address, Soc Sec # etc isn't personal?

    Heck it's even worse than a passport as it can be used to access and correlate buying habbits. They could know even before you take your trip where you're going, where you're planning on staying and then see what restauraunts you ate at while you were away. Any "interesting" magazine subscriptions charged to that? Maybe even a SlashDot subscription paid on it to show just how subversive you really are. :-D

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  5. Re:I will NEVER carry an ID card by ScentCone · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I am not free to go about my business without the threat of having to account for myself, then I might just as well be in prison.

    I'd love to know how you've been travelling abroad without a passport all these years. Or, have you been having that same position for the last several decades? This is nothing new, just a new tool. There's no more of a "threat" now for having to account yourself than there ever has been: you've always had to account for yourself. Customs, immigration paperwork, visas - what, you think those are just new things that the Bush administration came up with in order to rule the world, just now? Please. Oh, and I'm curious how you handle things like traffic accidents, since you don't carry a driver's license or insurance paperwork or anything like that.

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