Political Rant (Part 2)

The ability to let your past fade away is at an end. As database systems get more and more pervasive the ability to change your identification gets harder and harder.

There is going to be a National ID card. Soon.

They won't call it that but I see two places where it looks like that is EXACTLY what they are doing.

1. National Drivers License standards. Supporting documents are necessary in order to get a DL. These documents will be stored PERMANENTLY. Included in the list is a Birth Certificate. Some of us were able to get new BC's and have the old ones sealed. Sealed doesn't mean much, after all the Government locked it away so the Government has the key. But when they tie the databases together, does history go along with it? What about pre-transition DL information from other states? It'll all be right there.

2. National Health Records. One of the ideas behind this is that no matter where you are, you can have your health records there for you. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? (choirs of kittens and cuddly Teddy Bears - Poppa Government is looking out for you.) How do you access those records then? How do you make sure no one else can access your records? You guessed it, an ID card or, at the very least, an ID number. Good to know that my optometrist can get the skinny on the origami of my genitalia.