Make Me Mad

[prog]

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.

Seriously, I'm asking.

Comments

[novalis.livejournal.com]

They're swipeable, which is likely to:

(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.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Are they swipeable? Where have you heard this?

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.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

See section 202(b)(9). Technically, this could be filled by punchcards or RFID instead, but swipes seem likeliest.

[keimel.livejournal.com]

The text of this is

(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.


Rather vague. It will contain a machine readable technology, whether swipe or RFID.