Quote:
Originally Posted by mopek1
It is bullshit and all ridiculous excuses as to why they need your info. All these companies should just say 1 of 2 things:
1. We want your info so we can sell it.
2. Governments now require this and use money laundering as their excuse so we have no choice.
...
|
Right. Just because government requires something doesn't make it right. These laws don't stop actual crimes. They merely create new classes of crimes, where the failure to collect and obtain personal information becomes the crime. In the name of stopping one crime, it is facilitating and enable a new one: identity theft. And identity theft is usually associated with some of fraud.
There was a presidential candidate named Ron Paul who spoke about the use of a single identifier, the Social Security Number, by every company and institution makes people more vulnerable to identity theft.
Another set of laws that make zero sense and are helping to facilitate identity theft are 2257 laws. I'm all against illegal pornography. But 2257 laws don't curtail illegal pornography. It just creates a new crime: failing to obtain and retain personal information of the model. 2257 laws do, once again, help facilitate and enable identity theft. Think about the paradox here. In order to photograph a woman naked, the photography/producer needs to obtain and retain personal identification and release documents. But if, instead, it was a meeting for sex instead of photography/modeling, nobody has to obtain and retain personal information of the other party to prove they aren't child molestors. Isn't actual sex with a person a greater act than mere photography of a person? By the calculus used to justify 2257 laws, everybody who has sex should have to retain the other person's ID and get a release form to prove they aren't guilty of rape.