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Privacy and control issues aren't resolved simply by rejecting a National ID card. There are other companies who are ready and willing to invade your privacy in other ways. And if they succeed, the issue of a National ID Card will not only be moot, it will look minor by comparison.
This invasion, of course is "Face ID", instant identification via camera, linked to government databases detailing your entire life. Had they been handed this technology, the Nazis and the Soviets would have thought they'd died and gone to heav.. er, the worker's paradise, yet Americans seem almost eager to embrace a technology that has potential for government control even beyond that posed by the National ID Card.
The image below comes directly from the brochure of one such company, marketed under the chilling, even threatening, slogan: " we never forget a face"
And as another of the same outfit's brochures frankly admits, the intent of the technology is "to identify and track undesirables ". (Better not get yourself labeled an "undesirable", say part of some vast left-wing conspiracy, because now it will have Consequences. Consider what this technology would be like in the hands of an administration like a recent one that did not hesitate to plunder the FBI files of the opposition.)
This could be your future -- an open book of everything that ever appeared
in a public record somewhere. Do you really want the kid at McDonald's
to know all about your speeding tickets, divorce, lawsuits or bum checks,
as soon as you walk in the door? He might. One quick click and he can tell if
you might be a "security threat" posing "risks and liabilities for [the
owner's] property and clientele." And don't even think about how they are
selling this to airports -- ever seen a shrink because you felt suicidal?
Click on the photo to read an article about this "cool technology" by a
Technical Editor (it figures):
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