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by realandreskytt 2979 days ago
But, God forbid, we issue people identifiers and keep a full tally of the citizens. You either have a proper identity management or stories like this (and identity theft and fraud and many other unpleasant things). It is the conscious choice of the society not to maintain proper records for the fear of overreach and these are the consequences.
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> for the fear of overreach

Yet if any organization uses overreach as a fundamental tactic it is ICE (along with DEA and NSA). I am no fan of conspiracy theories and in fact am typically favorable towards using government as an implementation of common policy, yet I can certainly also recognize a systems problem.