jay pettitt on 7/3/2008 at 00:22
How many Canadas did you think there were?
catbarf on 7/3/2008 at 00:30
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
The 'ooh - there's nothing to worry about unless you've something to hide' argument doesn't wash because it does rather also depend on who does the asking, not just on whether you've been a bad person. If a potential employer has asked you if you've had an aids test or suffered from a mental illness you'll understand what I'm talking about. If you've lived in a Country whose government doesn't like your religion or politics then you'll also understand.
I agree.
Quote Posted by Koki
Damn straight, I can let them know my name and address, but my height - never!
Actually, mine has both height and eye color on it. Oh shit biometrical data!
I still fail to see how ID cards are opressive and you just sound like bunch of kids about it. Here you get ID when you hit 18 and honestly, no one ever gave a fuck. It's just a plastic card, not a camera, microphone, or a goddamn GPS system which marks your location. The only way it limits my freedom is that I have to carry 2g more around.
Potentially exploitable? If you you have tech and means to fake an ID card, then you also have tech and means to fake money so why bother? And the national information database? Yeah I'm so scared somone will learn I have grey eyes.
Care to give me your name, address, height, age, weight, phone number, fingerprint, employment, and eye color? I'm sure I can find a use for it.
Do you really think your government will keep everyone's information protected forever, and that there will never be a leak?
For someone in possession of the right tools, an ID card isn't terribly difficult to fake. The idea that nobody will try because copying money is easier is just stupid.
SubJeff on 7/3/2008 at 02:33
Reader's Devil more like not compulsory lol
mopgoblin on 7/3/2008 at 02:45
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Wait, you were joking with that post, mopgoblin... weren't you? Or being as sarcastic as Koki was, right?
It looks to me like he was claiming that the type of biometric data collected for this system is not dangerous, by comparing it with another system that collects height and eye colour information. Such a comparison neglects the vast difference in the amounts of information collected by each system. By making that sarcastic comment, he's claiming that any opposition to this new system is an automatic reaction to words like "biometric" rather than a well-reasoned response based on the very real dangers associated with such a system.
SubJeff on 7/3/2008 at 02:59
Yeah you just take things so literally it's like you don't have the ability to reason normally. You're like a robot that stops when it sees a t-shirt with the word "STOP" on it.
That's it! You are a bot!
It's a diagnowsis!
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Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
As to moving to Canada, Australia or one of our other outlying colonies; yeah I'm thinking about it.
Remember, I'll fucking kill you.
Tocky on 7/3/2008 at 05:23
Well my card is going to have a semen sample. Lets see them fake that!
On second thought lets not.
Koki on 7/3/2008 at 06:44
Quote Posted by mopgoblin
It looks to me like he was claiming that the type of biometric data collected for this system is not dangerous, by comparing it with another system that collects height and eye colour information.
Are you scared they will include penis size or something? 'Cause that's really the only
potentially dangerous biometric information I can think of.
nickie on 7/3/2008 at 07:27
BlimeyO'rileyO'crikeyO'trousers. I had no idea we were divided up into subjects and citizens. Wish you luck with your application.
