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Originally posted by jaguar
But surely teh smae weaknesses that plague something liek a licence system would no dissipear in a naitonal ID system - its jsut another database after all, overall its MORE profitable to sell.
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The license system is not a secure system. It is an open system accessed by any cop any time no matter the circumstances. Only recently have some jurisdictions put more restrictions on access to that database. But still all data is available for any authorized person anywhere in the nation - even now in most every cop car.
A National ID system however must be a secure database, relatively, because of its function. Not any jurisdiction, or anyone else for that matter, would have access to an NID database - since such access would compromise the purpose of such a system. Unlike driver's licenses, access by authorities should require your cooperation.
Currently any cop anywhere in the nation can access all information on your driver's license because, unlike a National ID, the database is for access by everyone in law enforcement. However a National ID verification and protection system is intended to let you prove who you is to anyone (not just a cop) AND to verify that others have not 'counterfeited' or stolen your identity.
A driver's license database and a National ID database have different security because they have different purposes. Poor security on driver's license databases is what makes this 'so called' reliable identity system so unreliable.
Currently the many who require a National ID have no viable alternative because a driver's license security is not intended to make a secure Identity system. Currently the crime of identity theft is serious and will grow like the Internet because we have no secure identity protection and verification system.
As for that other question, I don't know what it was.