Biometric ID

[Jansen]

Its currently "pilot" - only a handful of cities will get to check them in the coming months, for the moment its not mandatory but it will be nation wide in two months - and then you may get to go to jail if you decline the usage.
Resourceful or round the twist?

For me it's wasted resources, when the biometric/electronic ID card was presented here they told us it'll be easier for the cities and the police to process your data. Yet so far while I came into traffic stops the police just looked at the ID, they've never checked the data on the chip itself.
Can't tell if customs actually takes a peek when I go by plane.

At least the german ones do, foreign ones are unlikely to do that because they are likely to lack the readers required.
Its a nice concept, but I guess it could have been implemented better.

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[Username removed]

I like this. It will ease up all this crap 'bout docs, papers, etc since you get everything in one place and what's the big deal about privacy? If you're not doing crimes then there's nothing you need to hide from them. They can even spy my butthole for all I care. If they so much enjoy the image of me being naked around the house or taking a crap on the toilet then let them watch me, I don't give a frack.

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Oh... Civilization....

I personally live in Canada. Canada itself is larger than the territory of the US, and even a few times larger than all of Europe (Considering a good part of Russia is in Asia), for that matter. I don't need any passport to move between the Provinces. Hell, I can go to the United States with my Driver's licence, too, personally, so I don't bother with costly passports.

Canada - 9.97 million sq km
US - 9.63 million sq km

Canada population - 35 million
US population - 315 million

And of that 35 million Canadians, 75% of them live with 90 miles of the US border - so you're almost just a suburb of the US anyway.

On the point of biometric ID's - anyone who's recently been in the US military knows about CAC cards. They already have magnetic stripes and integrated circuit chips in them. And if at some point in the US, you applied to join the military or were arrested and fingerprinted, then your prints are ALREADY on file somewhere.

From a day to day perspective, we simply get by with our state issued drivers licenses or state issued photo ID cards. There was supposed to be a Federal REAL ID requirement for them, but we're just contrary enough in this country that enough individual states told the Feds to shove it that it's probably never going to pass.

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[Pinko]

Oh... Civilization....

I personally live in Canada. Canada itself is larger than the territory of the US, and even a few times larger than all of Europe (Considering a good part of Russia is in Asia), for that matter. I don't need any passport to move between the Provinces. Hell, I can go to the United States with my Driver's licence, too, personally, so I don't bother with costly passports.

Canada - 9.97 million sq km
US - 9.63 million sq km

Canada population - 35 million
US population - 315 million

I... never denied that. I don't get your point. (I do pesonally live -literally- a thousand miles away from the US Border, though, on a personal note.) I was mostly mentioning that I only need a driver's licence to cross the border whenever I do, and that I don't NEED a passport to move around like an European would, since they hit another country every 3 hours of driving or so.

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[Agmen of Eladesor]

Oh... Civilization....

I personally live in Canada. Canada itself is larger than the territory of the US, and even a few times larger than all of Europe (Considering a good part of Russia is in Asia), for that matter. I don't need any passport to move between the Provinces. Hell, I can go to the United States with my Driver's licence, too, personally, so I don't bother with costly passports.

Canada - 9.97 million sq km
US - 9.63 million sq km

Canada population - 35 million
US population - 315 million

I... never denied that. I don't get your point. (I do pesonally live -literally- a thousand miles away from the US Border, though, on a personal note.) I was mostly mentioning that I only need a driver's licence to cross the border whenever I do, and that I don't NEED a passport to move around like an European would, since they hit another country every 3 hours of driving or so.

Part of my point is that Canada is basically USA North. In other words, you're not really a threat to us in any way, shape, or form.

And the other part is that you have to have an enhanced drivers license if you're Canadian and entering the USA.

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[Cris]

Living in the third world might no be that bad after all.

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[Echelon]

Solution: Become Zoners IRL

oh my gawd, perfect lol.

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[Zen_Mechanics]

Well that's our pov ~ but 69% of the people can't be "wrong" of not wanting it to be implemented.
Perhaps Passports, but local I.D cards are different.

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[Madvillain]

I got myself a new (dutch) passport a couple of weeks ago and was surprised about the fingerprint thingy,
big brother is watching us it seems.
Well , at least it makes me feel so much safer now *cough cough*

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[Jansen]

I got myself a new (dutch) passport a couple of weeks ago and was surprised about the fingerprint thingy,
big brother is watching us it seems.
Well , at least it makes me feel so much safer now *cough cough*

As long as people willingly use a smartphone, that passport is their smallest problem

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