The debate regarding the national id cards centers around a few key issues such as: its potential effectiveness of catching terrorists and apprehending criminals, reliability of this system , the financial costs of implementing this new program, and lastly, it would infringe on our personal privacy rights. You are essentially being monitored by the government and recorded your every move, and being monitored for all your normal day to day activities. 1. Privacy: This card will hold a vast amount of personal information such as your name, address (and former addresses), names of other family members, your religion, education, fingerprints, and much more. I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable carrying around that much information about myself, let alone trust another family member who could accidentally misplace their own card, thus exposing my personal details to a stranger. What if the government were to keep adding more and more personal information to that card in the future? It’s already a frightening world that we live in today with so much of our personal information floating around cyber space, and to keep adding more, would just leave people in a state of complete paranoia. I highly doubt that many people would even feel safer with this card. Look at how easy it is for teenagers, criminals to get a fake id right now. This system still would not guarantee that the terrorists could still obtain a card by fraudulently acquiring a birth certificate or a social security card. How can we trust that the government officials who job it is to secure our privacy wont have an insider selling our private information to a thief? Computer hackers are another potential threat. If they penetrate the government’s dat... ... middle of paper ... ...e securing our nation, but I believe that if the system crashes, we would be vulnerable to an attack, and hurt our nation even more. Technology is wonderful as long as its working, but when it fails you and has cracks in it, it becomes a huge burden. If our government wants to protect us , than why not invest that tax money and establish a new system to catch more criminals. There are a lot of more of criminals inside than terrorists anyways in our nation. Imagine a system where all of our law enforcement agencies communicate with one another and share the same information and enter information of the same system. Why don’t we have that already? America shouldn’t just stand united under a song, but also a system where it’s the same in all states. Imagine how many more criminals would be caught and not have the opportunity to become repeat offenders.
In William Safire’s “The Threat of National ID”, he argues against a National ID card. Safire published an article in the New York Times to establish different context. Safire gives details about the use of National ID card at different places in different situations. He emphasizes that many Americans are willing to give up personal privacy in return for greater safety, but none of us have privacy regarding where we go and what we do all the time. Safire disputes that mandatory National ID become necessary for people to prevent fear of terror attack.
- In the Article “Will Microchip Implants in Humans Become Mandatory?” it states “[young adults/teens] will leap to be chipped just as they snatch up the latest smart phone. And not only will the technology be convenient, but it will lend an illusion of power. With just a wave of your hands doors will open for you --- literally and figuratively” (Duke3). In the future Microchips will be the new smart phone. This microchip will be the way that they are identified, pay for bills, open doors, and do anything that is required to do in everyday life. Doors will be unlocked by using the microchip and a scanner within the door that can sense the microchips that are registered within the door to let them enter. Doctors will be able to access all medical records by a scan of the microchip. All bills and clubs and everything will be run by the microchip to the point that it will be a requirement for everyone to have a microchip implanted into their body. In the same article it also states “In the future, the most obvious pro, of an implant is that it could be used as an extra means of identification – particularly in passports. If it meant that long passport queues could be by-passed, I believe many people would have such an implant as soon as possible” (Duke3). With the use of a microchip as an identity and use to use all things, it would be very time saving. As well as it will be able to make everyday life just that much easier. While many people are for the microchip identity, there are many others that are leery and are against this microchip idea
Most Americans don't want to live in an Orwellian society under the heavy surveillance of Big Brother, but we do. Like it or not, we live in a society that accepts virtual strip searches at airports; surveillance cameras; "discount" cards that record our buying habits; bar codes; "cookies" and spywear on our computers; on-line access to satellite technology that can image our back yards; and microchip radio frequency identification devices that are already implanted in our family dogs and soon to be integrated into our groceries, our credit cards, our cash, and our new underwear. It is feasible that, in the not too distant future, our newly born will be "micro-chipped" before leaving t...
With the introduction of the internet being a relatively new phenomenon, the act of cyber espionage is not something that has been properly acknowledged by society. The American Government has done a stand up job of keeping its methods in the shadows and away from the eyes of its people since its documented domestic surveillance began on October 4th, 2001; Twenty three days after the Twin Towers fell President George Bush signed an order to begin a secret domestic eavesdropping operation, an operation which was so sensitive that even many of the country's senior national security officials with the...
There have been several occasions throughout America’s history where voter fraud has changed the outcome of an election. For example, “a 2010 Kansas election ended with a one vote margin where 50 of the winning side votes were cast illegally by citizens of Somalia (Hans Von Spankovsky).” Another example is when “a 1996 congressional race in California was almost overturned by hundreds of votes cast illegally by noncitizens (Hans Von Spankovsky).” Voter ID laws are a sensible precaution to voting. Voter id laws eliminate all forms of voter fraud and restore integrity to elections, Government issued photo ids are inexpensive and easy to obtain, and voter id laws don’t restrict the right to vote and restore confidence to voters.
Whether the U.S. government should strongly keep monitoring U.S. citizens or not still is a long and fierce dispute. Recently, the debate became more brutal when technology, an indispensable tool for modern live, has been used by the law enforcement and national security officials to spy into American people’s domestic.
...in safety and liberty in the first place, you have to push the envelope. Seeing all points of view on the issue of biometrics made me see that we are better off with it than without it. Eventually the legislation will be passed, and biometrics will fall into place, and become as common as a lock on your door. Just another security measure to keep us all safe as a family, as a neighborhood, as a state, and finally, as a nation.
“Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity”(Jeffrey Rosen). Where were you on September 11, 2001? Do you remember the world before this tragic incident? Throughout history, the United States has adopted forms of legislation with the intention of improving national security. From prohibition, to gun laws, the outcomes of these legislations have not always been good.
The idea is to allow any authorized person to verify the identity of a person. This would help in certain isolated situations, but would only have a limited effect on crime. The ID card contains, name, address, sex, photograph, fingerprints. That might also include place of employment, data of birth, perhaps religion, perhaps name of children, spouse, and health insurance coverage, may be credit records. Here I am talking about someone’s privacy. Since the ID card contains all the data about a person on it, then where is the privacy when the card is swiped? More high tech national id system would enable the federal government and its contractors to follow and...
National ID cards are applicable in countries all around the world, however, we can say that there exists a huge debate about their purpose and implications that it may provide. This debate has been around for as long as ID cards have been issued, due to different perspectives that people have towards them. For this reason, we have 2 big groups; those who are against ID cards and those who are for them. Since we are in a democratic society, everyone is allowed to have its own unique way of thinking, so it has been mentioned and talked from a lot of people, including writers. William Safire is one of the writers that will be mentioned in this essay as well as Alan Dershowitz. They both state their own perception of ID cards with arguments for
The U.S. is the frontrunner to integrate biometrics into several aspects of security and, eventually, into everyday life for citizens. As of January 5, 2004, America has been using biometrics at its airports and seaports. All foreigners entering on visas will have their hands and faces digitally scanned.10 This will not affect American citizens but it may cause a problem for foreigners. By October 26th 2004, “all countries whose nationals can enter America without a visa—including western European countries, Japan and Australia—must begin issuing passports that contain biometric data too.”10 There are ongoing discussions in Europe to create a standard for passports that has many countries following suit.
How many of us care about the safety of ourselves, our children and community we live in? Spending money on people who committed serious crimes might not feel as the greatest idea at first, but as the researches show, it would most likely benefit in the future. RAND’s Corporation research proves that
Everything is stored on the internet including highly classified government information, and your bank information. How do we make sure no one steals, views, or sells your passwords, and private information? Congress passed a law in 1986 called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to protect the government’s information. Many laws have been passed that revises the CFAA. The CFAA has imprisoned many people, and many people want changes to the CFAA today.
One important reason that advancements in technology are bad is Personal identifying information can be found by anyone who has a computer. People’s personal information, like address and medical history can be found, because almost everything is online. ID theft is a growing problem in the United States. “The scope of ID theft has grown so quickly that it now takes up a substantial and growing portion of law enforcement resources.” This means that ID theft is becoming a big problem. Once your ID is stolen it can be very difficult to get back what you lost.“Though the costs of getting your money back have declined, victims aren't getting back all of what was taken”. This means that when people’s things get stolen over the internet, they may not get everything back that was taken.Technology is so advances people’s personal information can be accessed by anyone with a laptop, and that is something that needs to be changed.
Identity cards vary, from passports to health cards to driver licenses. Each play a different role, one will be used to travel another used when individuals seek care and another simply to drive around town. Identity cards serve as a form of surveillance to insure the wellbeing within a country against danger. This brings me to say, is monitoring an individual’s life going to insure their safety? Forms of identification can offer security, freedom as well as accessibility to North American citizens. Although, scenarios such as identity theft can cause individuals to think otherwise. The topics discussed in this essay is, the use of identification allows basic rights to North American citizens. Monitoring insures security within countries as