[TheForge] Criminal Background Check

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

All they have to do is scan it.
Spooky times,,,Orwell didn't anticipate the half of it.pf

Mike Spencer wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
> 
>> Damned if I'll turn over my signature to govt. records.
>>
>> Wrote to my state senator and asked about privacy vs these digitized
>> signatures and got a reply from some panjandrum in the DMV, rambling
>> on about this and that and ultimately telling me they could do
>> anything they damned well pleased with my digitized signature.
> 
> The nasty principle here isn't that someone's out to get you.  It's
> that once data is collected, it will be used, saved forever and used
> in whatever manner looks good at the time, legal or illegal, ethical
> or not, private or public good, profit or not.  There will always be a
> justification available along the same lines as the recently
> shitcanned DC cabal justifying torture because, well, you know, we really
> *really* needed to do it.
> 
> I have a NS driver's license with no digital photo or digital
> signature.  It took a bit of correspondence and the final attitude
> seems to be, "You silly twit, just wait until you need photo ID (which
> will be every time you turn around in your stall, of course).  Then
> you'll come running back to us."
> 
> As it happens, in the several years since then, I haven't had a road
> stop (so don't yet know it will be received by the Mounties) and I've
> only had one request for photo ID.  To get inside the gates of a
> blueberry processing plant, the receptionist asked for photo ID and I
> asked if a DL was okay.  Yes, she says, so I give her my DL.  Boggle.
> First one she's ever seen. After a bit of chat, she agreed with me
> completely about excess data collection, personal data leakage and
> misuse etc.  Then my Guy showed up and I didn't have to get inside the
> fence after all because the 250# Murray hammer [1] was at another,
> unsecured location.
> 
> OTOH, I have to have a license with a photo (but no fingerprints) to
> own long guns.  At least it was a physical photo, not an automated
> digital database photo.  (Not that it makes a lot of difference in the
> long run.)
> 
> 
> FWIW,
> - Mike
> 
> [1] YADATROT: (Yet another desperate attempt to remain on topic)
>     The Maritime Blacksmiths now have the hammer, donated by John
>     Bragg, owner of, among other things, the blueberry plant.
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