Relational databases have been with us for decades now. I fail to see why we still have to carry so many pieces of individual ID in this day and age.
If having an ID is (sadly) becoming mandatory, I say tie everything to the SS number. I think the potential savings in time and expense be enormous.
Donna
· 3 years ago
Thank you for the reminder! I will be linking to this when I write my blog about passport renewals.
kmilyun
· 3 years ago
Well lets see emmm.... I was born here but I only have one form of legal picture ID - my drivers license. If I read that correct I will need two? No one took my picture when I was born LOL. I have no passport. I can see if I read this right I am in deep doo doo. Now three id's DL, SScard, and birth cert....
But the new ID would just be another form of ID that someone else could expoit. I guess I should go get a passport before the going gets tougher?
If the problem is a secure identity card how is using a birth certificate that may or not be accurate (mine is not as I am adopted - so it is altered) , a social security card that was issued based on info the person provided - the little form my mom helped me fill out years ago, and a Drivers License based upon the former two?
I was born here in California, I planned to die in California, I never have had the desire to leave the United States so I never got a passport. Next they will want us to get a micro chip like my dogs have.
Perhaps I should go to the local graveyard, write down a name, apply for a copy of the birth certificate, send off for a social security card, get a passport and a drivers license .... so my new electronic ID card will be accurate - anybody with a little time, research, and the desire to defraud, could still do this .. so what is the point?
I smell a wumpus . ..
drumsnwhistles
· 3 years ago
Kmilyun, go get your passport. That's what I plan to do, too, because it's the only photo ID I can get next to my driver's license. I have managed for nearly 48 years without one, but the time has now come to go and get it. I'm pleased to know that I actually CAN get one, finally, now that I have been legitimized in the eyes of the SSA, where I was a bastard child up till earlier this year.
Finnigh, please go tell the government about relational databases, because they evidently only know how to maintain them when it is convenient for THEM to do so. Lord knows that by now they should know me as well as my own mother, but no...I'm not even a number, yet.
Donna...when you do the passport update post, you might consider recommending that people get a passport even if they don't think they need one. If I had a passport I could have avoided a lot of the aggravation of The Identity Game.
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If having an ID is (sadly) becoming mandatory, I say tie everything to the SS number. I think the potential savings in time and expense be enormous.
But the new ID would just be another form of ID that someone else could expoit. I guess I should go get a passport before the going gets tougher?
If the problem is a secure identity card how is using a birth certificate that may or not be accurate (mine is not as I am adopted - so it is altered) , a social security card that was issued based on info the person provided - the little form my mom helped me fill out years ago, and a Drivers License based upon the former two?
I was born here in California, I planned to die in California, I never have had the desire to leave the United States so I never got a passport. Next they will want us to get a micro chip like my dogs have.
Perhaps I should go to the local graveyard, write down a name, apply for a copy of the birth certificate, send off for a social security card, get a passport and a drivers license .... so my new electronic ID card will be accurate - anybody with a little time, research, and the desire to defraud, could still do this .. so what is the point?
I smell a wumpus . ..
Finnigh, please go tell the government about relational databases, because they evidently only know how to maintain them when it is convenient for THEM to do so. Lord knows that by now they should know me as well as my own mother, but no...I'm not even a number, yet.
Donna...when you do the passport update post, you might consider recommending that people get a passport even if they don't think they need one. If I had a passport I could have avoided a lot of the aggravation of The Identity Game.