Politicians and police will want to create national identity cards with digital IDs. It'll be your master ID, the one that the others are based on. You'll use it to register to vote, to get a passport, to fill out your I-9 form, to check into and out of jail. Maybe it will be called the New Social Security card. Only opponents will call it a national ID card.
Civil libertarians will object, but cops and corporations will extoll the value of giving secure digital IDs to Americans at birth or whenever the corporate/political elite believes it will suit their interests. They'll bash civil libertarians as soft-on-crime whiners.
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Politicians and police will want to create national identity cards with digital IDs. It'll be your master ID, the one that the others are based on. You'll use it to register to vote, to get a passport, to fill out your I-9 form, to check into and out of jail. Maybe it will be called the New Social Security card. Only opponents will call it a national ID card.
Civil libertarians will object, but cops and corporations will extoll the value of giving secure digital IDs to Americans at birth or whenever the corporate/political elite believes it will suit their interests. They'll bash civil libertarians as soft-on-crime whiners.