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Alan Pollock wrote:
Seriously, driver's licenses are used as ID in the US. You know, I am amazed at the transformation of the USA. In the past, the mere mention of a national identity card would make the republicans rabid, professing that such a card would infringe on the rights of freedom and liberty (etc etc). It is interesting that those very same people today are calling anyone who is against the current regime's measures "unpatriotic" even those measures actually do infronge on many of the basic principles of the USA (right to fair trial, innocent until proven guilty etc). While a citizen has some power over his government in case of abuses, a visitor does not. So if the US regime misuses its own citizens information, you can eventually boot them out (or even impeach them). But for travellers, they have no such right. This is especially true when a regime does not have modern data privacy laws and can essentially do as it wishes with the personal data it collects. Lets turn the tables around: lets say that the Taliban had required all visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed when they visited Afghanistan. Then, they would choose an american indentity at random and proceed to murder some prominent person in the USA, making sure that they leave some innocent person's fingerprints as well as wearing a mask making the real guilty person look like the innocent. That is why, if you are going to leave personal information with a government, you must have trust that the government will not misuse that information. The current USA regime has broken that trust because it has misused the information. Look at the Jetblue personal information which had been meant to stay within one department for study, but not only spread to other departments, but was also handed over to some consulting firm that not only analysed the data but also displayed privated information in their examples during a presentation at a conference. |
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