Trans-Atlantic ID Card System 428
Th3P0stalDud3 writes "The Independent is reporting that the U.S. has asked the U.K. to use the same chips in their proposed identity cards as the ones in our proposed identity card. In effect, creating a trans-atlantic ID card system." From the article: "The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic."
Elimination of the middle class (Score:3, Informative)
Already Canada, Mexico, Next CAFTA, UK, All FTAs (Score:3, Informative)
With CAFTA [wikipedia.org] and FTAs between US and Australia [ustr.gov], and other Free Trade agreements in effect or in progress, including Andean FTA, Australia FTA, Bahrain FTA, Chile FTA, Israel FTA, Jordan FTA, Morocco FTA, Panama FTA, Singapore FTA, and SACU FTA, you can bet that we'll see more of the same with our major trading partners.
Re:Hey... (Score:3, Informative)
-sirket
Oh really? (Score:3, Informative)
Heck it's even worse than a passport as it can be used to access and correlate buying habbits. They could know even before you take your trip where you're going, where you're planning on staying and then see what restauraunts you ate at while you were away. Any "interesting" magazine subscriptions charged to that? Maybe even a SlashDot subscription paid on it to show just how subversive you really are.
Re:I will NEVER carry an ID card (Score:3, Informative)
I'd love to know how you've been travelling abroad without a passport all these years. Or, have you been having that same position for the last several decades? This is nothing new, just a new tool. There's no more of a "threat" now for having to account yourself than there ever has been: you've always had to account for yourself. Customs, immigration paperwork, visas - what, you think those are just new things that the Bush administration came up with in order to rule the world, just now? Please. Oh, and I'm curious how you handle things like traffic accidents, since you don't carry a driver's license or insurance paperwork or anything like that.