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		realusername on March 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'My life was ruined by a typo' I don't see most of these issues in European countries with ID cards. Anyway, you need to have a way to identify citizen for practical purpose anyway, if it's not an ID card, it's going to be something less reliable and prone to errors.

mino on March 22, 2017 [–]

Yes, this cyclically comes up on HN and it's 100% American culture dependent.

There's no reason why ID cards would lead to more or less secure data collection than today.

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