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Pain
Not entirely (because there is no such thing as a completely free society), but the abolition of ID cards inarguably freed folks to some considerable extent from a level of bureaucracy and legalised intrusion so unnecessary in peacetime (which was maybe why that political campaign proved so successful).
These days you find yourself with smartphones, credit cards, online subscriptions, etc. Younger generations are more used to handing over data.
I don't think it matters if you have to have one but maybe the argument changes if governments make it an offence not to carry them?
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Pain
I don’t have any of those.
But do you have a NI number? A tax reg number? A TV? A NHS number? A BT number? Gas, electricity or water? Any already put you on a computer somewhere and hold personal data about you.
Privatisation added to the loss of control of that data and the need for data protection laws.
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Pain
Are they more trusting or more gullible? Do they not value privacy over convenience?
Or less paranoid? It can work both ways. I'm just saying it has become more normal to trade with data.
I'm 47 yet have had credit cards since my 20s. I had a cash card before that. All these companies hold lots of data yet it cannot be accessed without following the law.
Did older generations not had a phone? A TV licence? A driver's licence? If you had any of those you shared as much data as people do with the one's I mentioned. It's just the same data shared with more private companies.
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Pain
I would guess, based on how the 1939 National Registration Act was enforced, that if it were made compulsory, then there would be a legal requirement to have it in one’s possession at all times and be available for immediate inspection on demand by ‘authorised’ authorities (probably using a scanner to read the personal information stored on the chip and linked via wireless technology to a central database, which would almost certainly contain one’s full profile – a profile which would have no legal bounds imposed).
In such a scenario, as far as the state would be concerned, one would be a number under which everything of interest to the state (which would be everything eventually) would be logged, AI-analysed and correlated using algorithms to ensure full compliance with whatever the state dictated.
A number: to be filed, defiled, briefed, debriefed etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.... Or a somewhat comparatively free man? That is the question.
I'm already a number. I was one the minute I was issued a NI card. I'm a number on every computer used by an company or state body. I was a number from birth. A tax payer has a number. Aren't we simply voter numbers to the government?
Can't we be both? Filing systems demand numbers but we are still people. Everyone is grouped into numbers to be able to analyse and report or a system is unworkable. It doesn't mean you aren't dealt with an an individual when you make contact.
Data sharing also has it's merits. It took decades for the NHS to wake up to the modern world where a hospital doesn't have to call your GP to access local computer records or a filing cabinet about you whilst you lay needing emergency care. In a private industry setting that would have been regarded as bonkers in the 90s.
It could be mandated in the same way a driver's licence or passport is. You just produce it within a given timeframe?
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Pain
He really does :roflmao:
Also an amusing cross over with Father Ted to this story...
https://media.tenor.com/90O-07ZspXEA...my-account.gif
...:whistles::winks:
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You'd have to live under a rock on a remote moorland, to not know about ID to vote by now :shrug:
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We area mailed a number prior to an election and have to show it to vote.No photo needed.
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A burger shop I used to go to years ago got done 3 times for cat burgers (also known as roof rabbit).Best burgers around but the health depth didn't agree.
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Probably a cat burglar :roflmao:
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Pain
Doctors Looking Into A Peculiar Practice...
find evidence of a new ‘epidemic’.... Really?...
‘Doctors say that oral sex is the biggest risk factor for developing the cancer — outstripping smoking, alcohol consumption, and an unhealthy diet.’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...-b2327921.html
What’s government doing about this? No doubt there’ll be health warnings to come....
Tattooed in the appropriate area at birth perhaps?
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What a load of BS.
Thank gawd our government didn’t waste money on lighting up the Opera House, it was money well saved.
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Lolalee1
What a load of BS.
Thank gawd our government didn’t waste money on lighting up the Opera House, it was money well saved.
Couldn't agree more :yesyes: