National Identification Card Won’t Work

National Identification Card Won’t Work

The debate on National Identification card has restarted since the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The issue of introducing the National Identification Card came into people’s view after a long time hoping that it would reduce the danger of terrorism in the future. United States is not the only one country who is introducing the National Identification Card. There are other hundreds of countries that have already had National Identification Card in use in order to improve security in the country, assist law enforcement and make a delivery of services more efficiently to all the citizens of the nation. People think that introducing the National ID card would prevent the terrorism in the future. That’s why most people support this issue thinking about their security in the future.

How would the National ID card prevent the terrorism? There are so many other forms of identification cards like driver license, social security card, birth certificate and passport. So how is this National ID card going to be different than these cards? These might be the general questions that might come into consideration. The driver license does have a picture, a finger print and some other general information about the person where as the social security card does not even have that. Therefore, these types of identification can easily be forged. Introducing a whole new ID for a national ID would cost a billion. Just "hardening of the driver’s license could lead to the development of National ID System without creating a national ID card which could benefit the nation’s efforts to improve security" (Tech). So, in order to prevent criminals from using a fals...

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... about their security agreed on the debate whereas people, who were more concerned about their privacy about their financial information, credit information, medical records and all the other personal records are not agreeing on this debate. They say it’s massive as almost every action or activity you participate in while living a normal life potentially generates a huge database about every individual, as the national ID would require all the information stored in a huge governmental database. Therefore looking at the arguments on national Id, I would prefer just to stay with the ID we have right now rather than spending billions of dollars on introducing a new form of identification card. In the 19th century, it was sufficient to ask who you are. In the 20th century, it was sufficient to show who you are. Now in the 21st century, you will have to prove who you are.