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Originally posted by Bitman
Indeed, a forged national ID will be FAR more powerful than forged IDs today, and it's likely you'll have a much harder time clearing your name. Today, identity theft leads to ruined credit history, but national ID theft will put you in jail.
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How does a national ID give you any protection?
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1) That question of protection was answered, with example, in the previous thread "A National ID Card".
2) ID theft causing the victim to be arrested - again cited in that previous thread.
3) ID theft is not a crime in most states. As one cop specifically noted, you could not even file a civil suit against someone for stealing your idenity and destroying your credit rating in PA because a destroyed credit rating, according to PA courts, did not constitute a proven loss. A law was recently proposed in PA to amend that problem. I don't know if it had passed. It was a law unique in the nation. ID theft is not a crime in most of the US.
4) The post implies that the author thinks of ID verification in terms of a paper license. Again, how ID verification and protection works was defined in that other thread.