Mattso: We all have to carry forms of ID with us for a number of reasons ... I would feel safe knowing that I have nothing to hide and that someone else might.
Absolutely zero of the reasons we carry ID are for everyday government tracking. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of why we are opposed to tracking. In the workplace, we don't make handouts of certain proprietary information because once it physically leaves your hands, it leaves your zone of control. Instead, this information is shared in boardroom presentations or one-on-one meetings.
In the old system of school identification, you share your information with the school receptionist and it stops there. In this system, it goes off to a server that's managed by God-knows-who and that has unknown (by the user) security. In the old system, I'm putting faith in the idea that the receptionist is benign. In the new system, I need faith in a) the technology, b) the maintainers of the technology, c) the government officials who own the technology, d) any future government or organization that will forcibly or non-forcibly inherit those files.
Adam R: This is just so that the office doesn't need to keep checking the main door for people entering and to verify that the person says who they are.
In other words, this project is a big, fancy whiz-bang that saves the school no more than 5 minutes worth of effort per day that are probably being used to play Solitaire anyway? With almost nothing to gain from using the system benignly, is there any wonder why people are looking for ulterior motives. Besides, 76% of all kidnappings are by acquaintances or relatives anyway.
The money came from our taxes one way or another. I'm personally peeved that it went to a nigh worthless system instead of, say, towards safer roads and pedestrian access, which would have guaranteed to save the lives of countless more children than kidnapping paranoia.
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Mattso: We all have to carry forms of ID with us for a number of reasons ... I would feel safe knowing that I have nothing to hide and that someone else might.
Absolutely zero of the reasons we carry ID are for everyday government tracking. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of why we are opposed to tracking. In the workplace, we don't make handouts of certain proprietary information because once it physically leaves your hands, it leaves your zone of control. Instead, this information is shared in boardroom presentations or one-on-one meetings.
In the old system of school identification, you share your information with the school receptionist and it stops there. In this system, it goes off to a server that's managed by God-knows-who and that has unknown (by the user) security. In the old system, I'm putting faith in the idea that the receptionist is benign. In the new system, I need faith in a) the technology, b) the maintainers of the technology, c) the government officials who own the technology, d) any future government or organization that will forcibly or non-forcibly inherit those files.
Adam R: This is just so that the office doesn't need to keep checking the main door for people entering and to verify that the person says who they are.
In other words, this project is a big, fancy whiz-bang that saves the school no more than 5 minutes worth of effort per day that are probably being used to play Solitaire anyway? With almost nothing to gain from using the system benignly, is there any wonder why people are looking for ulterior motives. Besides, 76% of all kidnappings are by acquaintances or relatives anyway.
The money came from our taxes one way or another. I'm personally peeved that it went to a nigh worthless system instead of, say, towards safer roads and pedestrian access, which would have guaranteed to save the lives of countless more children than kidnapping paranoia.