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Originally Posted by pdurrant
One problem with an national ID card is that it's easier to fake an identity - only one item is needed.  |
People have their identity stolen online fairly often these days, at least in the US. So many companies and other entities require employees and others to submit their Social Security Number, and then a hacker comes along and steals those numbers. As someone else mentioned, the SSN is just a number on a card without an ID photo or fingerprint. If you steal a person's SSN, you can pretty much steal their identity. I worked for the US government briefly on two occasions, and hackers managed to steal my information from the government databases a few years ago. So far no identity theft has occurred, but I keep my credit bureau accounts locked. It is a total PITA!
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
I live in Ohio, and have never been fingerprinted for a driver's license, or any other reason.
Many jobs require it, because of background checks. My mom was fingerprinted back in the 1990's when she applied to work at a public grade school. Well, they tried, but couldn't get a fingerprint off of any of her fingers.
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Each state and territory can choose whether to fingerprint or not, though the feds are trying to encourage all of them to do so and to adopt a similar looking card format, but they are not required to do so.