[SpaceManNabs]

> we do, it’s just 80% privatized and a massive liability and inconvenience for citizens in ways that it doesn’t need to be

I am guessing to you are referring to how multiple private organizations can just poll for my social security number and I cant do anything about it? Yeah...

[vundercind]

Yep. It’s a pain in the ass to deal with from our end, to put it mildly, but easy to piece it all together on the other, so it’s barely an impediment to bad actors. Since there are functionally no restrictions on government using parts of that system to grab all kinds of data from private sources, it’s a national ID connected directly to a crazy-powerful dragnet spying system, too. But inconvenient, insecure, and very hard to gain oversight of.

All the bad shit, none of the good. We may as well just have a national ID, it’d be less-bad than what we have now and might provide a jumping off point for making it a lot less-bad.