Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said.
Hmm mm. Isn’t that a national ID system?
What is the American rationale for hating it? It makes so many things easier, cleaner, safer.
Voting is so much secure, for example.
Do most Americans live the unabomber life?
Banks, the IRS, insurance companies, internet companies, data companies, the DM, the credit card companies, schools, yada yada. All have your data.
As a matter of fact, if the government acts a a data proxy, it could prevent you from having to disclose a lot of the data you disclose now.
You are in so many places, and this is pre-digital, that not having a national ID is just idiotic.
Here is some background on the rational https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/national-id
Here is a rough overview of the current state of affairs https://legalclarity.org/what-is-considered-a-national-id-in-the-usa/
Technically yes but I’d prefer for it not being done by this administration. As an outsider with national ID, they managed before, I prefer if they waited dunno, 4 years before implementing it? Random number.
Here is some background on the rational https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/national-id
Here is a rough overview of the current state of affairs https://legalclarity.org/what-is-considered-a-national-id-in-the-usa/