So how many of you..

[Pekka]

will be carrying the new national ID cards when they come out of the oven? Do you put it in your front pocket and smile, because you know you are fighting crime AND terrorism, because you can be identified as a good citizen?

[BeBMan]

You don't have to carry the thing with you all the time - at least that's it's how it's here in Krautland.

[Pekka]

It wasn't meant for you dirty krauts.

It was meant for freedon loving Americans of course.

[BeBMan]

They get ID cards? Didn't know......are these those new thingies with biometric data and stuff?

[Pekka]

They will eventually. I'll bet in the next.. 5 years.

They will be RFID-based most likely. With data and stuff.

[Unspeakable Horror]

You don´t have ID cards?

[Pekka]

not with RFID's we don't.

[MOBIUS]

They are a total waste of time for a multitude of obvious reasons...

They will probably end up helping terrorism, not hinder it!

[BeBMan]

Why is your avatar doing a "Heil Hitler"

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Unspeakable Horror
You don´t have ID cards?

Nope, they have passports which aren´t mandatory
and only required if leaving the country.

The only means widely available to identify american citizens at the moment seems to be their driving licence and their SSN (Social security number)

[Lorizael]

People without driver's licenses can also get state-issued ID cards.

[Donegeal]

I'll keep mine right next to my work id so when I get asked for my national one, oops! My work one comes out too!!!
(How clumsy of me...)

[Pekka]

You mean to say you take off your shirt and attach it to your nipple?

I'm tazing your prossy ass the minute I don't get a good discount on the massage services!

[Dr Strangelove]

I have one. It's called a "driver's license". Most Americans have them. More than likely if a national ID card ever came into existence the driver's license would do as a substitute.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I have one. It's called a "driver's license". Most Americans have them. More than likely if a national ID card ever came into existence the driver's license would do as a substitute.

If they really do create a national identity card, it will be a biometric card containing a chip that stores data. They're already going this was with the new passports that will come out next year. A driver's license will be no substitute, unless states go to biometric licenses, which they might.

On that note, though, a funny story about the peculiar American reverence for the driver's license: when I was in training with the State Department, we had too spend a day at the CIA. To get into the George Bush Intelligence Center ( ), we had to surrender a photo ID. They wouldn't take our State Dept. IDs, for which we had all been subject to months of Federal background and security checks. But a driver's license issued by some bored flunky in Toothless Hollow, Arkansas? No prob, come on in!