Are you Screwed - National ID

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Using state driver licenses or Social Security numbers for or as the basis of an ID system is fraut with problems. Both systems are constructed for government use. Neither has features delegated for the individual's needs - especially ID protection. A National ID and Protection (both words make SS and driver's licenses useless) system must operate independent of those other systems - to work properly AND to protect the rights of the individual.

We have no current system that protects individuals from ID theft. Current systems have no database that an individual can use for protection. Unfortunately these reasons and underlying philosophies are too complex for those with political agendas to appreciate - at least until too many of them become victims.

If politicians were treated as common people, then identify theft would happen to them - and then we would see them deal with the issue. In the meantime we will see many issued new credit card numbers, without knowing that again, massive personal information was stolen from their database.

I believe this theft of 13,000 IDs in the Ford database is rare - only because it was disclosed. I have long suspected that many credit cards have assigned new customer numbers because their databases were also compromised. Has your credit card unilaterally assigned you a new card with a new number? Then suspect your SS number in their database may have been stolen.