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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
> Maybe the reason you are experiencing such a fear is the fact that ID card
> is supposed to be "High Tech"...
> I have had a National ID card for ten years, and I only had to show it for
> proof of identity on reasonable subjects: Tests (School, College admission),
> Licenses (Driver's and others), and as a login number (!) to know if I had
> been admitted to College.
See, that you think these reasonable is itself symptomatic.
> Technically, if I get in trouble I can use it to prove my identity, but I
> was never asked by any cop to display it.
> The thing is our ID card acts a bit like a passport (in fact, it does so
> within the Schengen Space). There are no chips, and the sort of information
> is very superficial: Name, Birthday, Parents' names, Height, Marital Status,
> Number (the single most important thing), Emission
Your ID card tracks emissions? :-) (lesse, mine would say Hot Air, some
methane, some foam)
> and Validity.
> Besides, our legislation FORBIDS the state agencies to cross data among
> themselves (for instance, Social security record and Tax record), or to
> share it with companies. There are a few laws about data collected from
> citizens, very advanced indeed.
Right, we have those too with respect to SSN. Didn't work.
ID cards are bad news. Period.
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| (...) Why so? I'd go even further and say the ID card is sometimes practical (there is a better word in portuguese, but I cannot recall the translation). (...) Man, you are wicked... :-P *Date* of emission... or something like "Issued in Porto, on (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| Hello Larry, (...) So, you think it would be OK to ... ... send someone else to a college test instead of showing up personally? ... drive with someone else's driver's license? (...) So, at least one thing works better in Europe than the US ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes: (snipped) (...) Hi Chris, Maybe the reason you are experiencing such a fear is the fact that ID card is supposed to be "High Tech"... I have had a National ID card for ten years, and I only (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.pt)
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