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Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".
"Encourage your adversary to do more of the thing they've been pushing for half a century."
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It looks like it will be a good idea to name a baby after those databases are checked so that he/she is less likely have a problem in the future.
Now we know why Elon named his kid 'X Æ A-Xii'. UUID names next? v7 so we get the age...
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Objection to ID numbers as a concept aside, I don't think it actually solves the problem this author faced. Fake identities are dime a dozen. It is not exactly hard for an illicit entity to just put some random ID numbers it bought off the dark web on its books. And now you have just made it even harder for the people who had their identities stolen to clear themselves. How do you convince some company drone doing sa…
If they put an ID on a sanction list, there’s a possibility to verify it. They could verify that it actually belongs to the person they want to sanction before putting it on the list. Failing that, the actual person can prove that they don’t belong on the list by verifying their identity. Verifying identity is a much simpler problem than establishing identity.
> In both cases the courts called for better matching. Compare the date of birth. Compare the middle name.
> There is no version of that available to me. The listing has no date of birth to compare. No middle name and no passport number, because the person doesn’t exist. A screening system that does its job perfectly will still flag me, forever, on the only two facts the record contains: a common Irish name and a country.
These systems operate by matching as much information as possible. If the information isn’t there but the rest matches (even if it’s just a name) it flags in the system.
> Failing that, the actual person can prove that they don’t belong on the list by verifying their identity.
Sounds like you should tell the author. They’ve been living with this problem for 6 years but I’m sure your zero experience with these systems or trying to deal with it will help him immensely.
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> Why did it need to go to tattooed numbers Many countries have laws about having to carry an ID on you all the time. Not as bad as a tattoo, but still not acceptable IMO. > Also the implication that cultures and countries which have happily accepted id numbers are filled with non individualistic people is it? Are we really gonna keep pretending there are no differences between cultures?
Very few countries require you to carry an ID. Many countries require you to own one and keep it up to date, but don't care whether you carry it outside. Also, I find the point kind of moot for the US where a driving license is essentially an ID card, you have to carry it to drive, and you have to drive to go anywhere in most places.
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One good reason to introduce a national ID system in the US would be in order to replace and deprecate the Social Security Number, which is a terrible system that never should have been used as a de-facto national ID system.
Something tells me the people misusing the SSN would just misuse this new national ID number too. Wasn't the issue that people were treating knowledge of the (de facto public) ID number as proof of identity? Nothing is stopping them from doing the same with any future ID number.
This scares me! Denial of service (in some cases you may not even have an alternative), in some cases custody, et cetera and that too based on a false positive or a flimsy match. And no one doubles checks it, no one bothers to make sure, and they are allowed to do that! All this is actual legal and no one pays for it once it's found out, and even if you have suffered. None. And heaven's forbid if your actual ID and r…
The App Store as the only way to install apps is the worst part about iOS and why I'll never use it again. I'm always helping friends with piracy and I have to tell them they can't conveniently use a native app because it isn't listed on the App Store. And then there's the removal of ICE apps. It's too much control. On iOS, if the government banned Signal, Apple could enforce it. On GrapheneOS, you can use whatever a…
If a government entity would work like this, all heck would break loose. Trying to contrast this to the EU's attempts to force only gatekeepers (those companies so large that there is no alternative to dealing with them) to open up systems, even at the cost of damaging e.g. apple's valiant and welcome attempts to protect the privacy of its customers, highlights to me that the EU is completely correct in doing so.
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There are tonnes of them. Especially Eastern Europeans and Jews. Italians sometimes too. Still happens in entertainment, since Steve Carell and Nicholas Cage's real names are more Italian sounding.
Hah. Cage changed his last name because he didn't want to be a "nepo-baby"... You should look up that Italian-sounding last name and see who it belongs to.
Not one single person in that system thinks the very obvious "A name without any other data is worthless, let's just delete it from the list".
If people lack agency then you already have an ineffective system but my guess would be that no-one person has the authority to take executive action and every change however daft takes 30 people in a meeting discussing it for an hour so it just gets left as it is.