ID cards
Since 9/11, the government has decided to make the country more "secure" and harder to forge ID cards to get into places such as airports and obtain a license. Their solution is a RealID card, which will make a chip be inserted into our license cards containing digital versions of our birth certificate, social security card, visas, passports, and other similar documents. It may also go as far as containing fingerprints and iris scans. These cards will be scanned to get into important places, and it will be hard for a terrorist to come up with one that is legitimate. On the other hand, every time someone needs to scan the card, they will be shown this information about you. The government is doing a "test run" beginning soon in federal buildings called a PIV or Personal Identity Verification cards. This whole ordeal is going to turn into a huge invasion of privacy, and it will be incredibly costly to make all of the equipment. Is it worth it to have our privacy invaded to prevent another terrorist attack?
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People predicted this would happen way before now. People warned others that the government would find some way to have complete "control" of us and they are obviously, slowely heading that way. People also predict that they will go so far as too insert a chip in us that keeps track of us. This may sound ridiculous now, but credit cards and ID cards would have sounded just as ridiculous 50 years ago. The government will come up with some benefit to doing it and people will conform into groupthink and eventually be totally fine with it.
Any more it does not surprise me about the new developments that the United states has put in place in the way of security. For me I am happy to know that more security efforts are being put into place for my sake. People complain about their privacy when it comes to security but privacy and security in a way counteract one another. As security rises your privacy is going to go down and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If there is no background information about a person there is no way to be protected from the unknown. I agree and say that I am fine with the new security efforts.
I too am happy that the government is actually doing something to secure our United States. However, Jessica was correct by saying that the government will find anyway they can to control us. I wouldn't be surprised if this chip also had a tracking device in it so the government can find us when ever they wanted. I think this will hurt our economy in a way instead of help it because when they make these licenses they are most likely going to be expensive and citizens of the U.S. are going to be forking more money over to the government than they already are. This is going to place a large burden on the U.S. in the long run.
Another affect that this new id card could have on the economy involves immigration. It will be harder for immigrants to duplicate one of these id cards along with terrorists. Whether we acknowledge it or not immigration is a substancial amount of our labor force. They provide cheap labor for the jobs that other Americans are not willing to due. The government has been taking steps in reducing immigration knowing that it will affect the economy. This id card system will reduce the problem of illegal immigration which can be a bad or good thing depending on your opinion. I am also glad that National Security messures are being taken, they are not yet too extreme.
I don't think spending thousands of dollars on ID cards is the right way to prevent another terrorist attack. I also think ID cards would result in a lot of problems because when the new ID cards are scanned, all of a person's information is shown. There would be some way a person's accounts could be broken into and once this is done, it will just cause way too many problems. Our airports and borders need to be better protected to prevent another terrorist attack. We shouldn't have to completely redo our ID cards and spend thousands of dollars. It's just unrealistic.
Due to the war on terrorism the government is becoming more secretive and gaining more and more control. Delving into our privacy, to "protect" our freedom is the ultimate goal. How far is too far, the question we need to ask ourselves. Technology like this always has the possible for failure. A failure in this scenario could be devestating for many because of the easy access of such vital information. Loopholes exist with everything, and this is no exception. If there is a will thre is a way. Terrorists and illegal immigrants will eventually find another way around this new development, so why the intrusion of privacy for a quick fix? I say its just another way for the government to increase their power even further.
This is the worst idea i have ever heard. Identity theft is already a big problem why not simplify the crime by convieniently putting all a persons info in one place, airport security has done a good job since 9/11 no need to go all "1984" now.
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