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i forgot to mention that a "smart card" reader was developed that would plug into a port on any computer - thus enabling sales and real time money transactions online
as for the statement about health records, financial status, political slant, religious affiliations and employment history...they are already being tracked
your health records can be tracked everytime you use OHIP coverage (here in Canada), your financial status is tracked by bank statements, your political slant is tracked by voting and if you're radical or think outside of the box it's tracked by the kind of books you purchase and your employment history is tracked through taxes
but what worries me about the National ID Card is the use of biometrics
imagine this scenario once the card has a loadable purse for use at a bank
you go to a bank machine to take out some cash
a robber could either knock you unconscious and use your card plus one of the scanning options (pushing your eye or hand onto/into the scanning port)
worse case scenario
the person wants to adopt your identity and kills you, steals your card and chops off your hand and rips out your eyeball (sounds a bit far-fetched, but it has always been a real concern of people working in the biometric industry)
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