Explain to me how the National ID card is so depressingly worse than the established use of SSIDs/drivers licenses/state IDs throughout current American society.
(a) alter peoples' attitudes about who has access to their personal information and (b) make it harder to fight (say) mandatory swipes to use the T later, because it's a smaller change, and people tend to be more tolerant of small changes.
I'm not doubting it, but there seems to be a lot of definite talk about the card's design when no such design has been announced, as far as I can tell.
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(a) alter peoples' attitudes about who has access to their personal information and
(b) make it harder to fight (say) mandatory swipes to use the T later, because it's a smaller change, and people tend to be more tolerant of small changes.
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I'm not doubting it, but there seems to be a lot of definite talk about the card's design when no such design has been announced, as far as I can tell.
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(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.
Rather vague. It will contain a machine readable technology, whether swipe or RFID.