03-19-2009, 05:06 PM
Sinister Wrote:It doesn't have to be, but it is. When do you say enough? When do you say the invasion of your privacy has gone too far, whether you have something to hide or not?I just don't see how an international form of ID is any more of an invasion of privacy than any other form of government ID. I think it would avert more problems than it would cause, especially with terrorist or international criminals.
That being said, as I'm sure some of you already know, there is now a new federal ID card for government workers. Having been involved in the installation of some of the stations for issuing the new badges, I had to become familiar with the badging processes and all that. There is supposed to be several 'layers' of security that the badging process goes through, to help eliminate fraud. A different person is supposed to handle each phase of the process, however during my time working with the installations, I discovered that in several cases, a single person was handling several different points of the process, therefore *theoretically*, they could have bypassed some of the creditial requirements and allowed people to slip through the badging process who should not have. I'm not saying that happened, of course, only that it could have. The process itself is a good one... IF they actually stuck to their own requirements.