This is absolutely hilarious, but the scary part about it is
it's probably not too far away from being reality, providing Obama has
his way with socialized medicine, and digitizing medical records.
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There have been talks about that stuff for ages. Like store cards: what is preventing the stores, which potentially know what you bought if you used a card, from telling the insurance agencies exactly how many beers and doughnuts you buy per month?
Mostly because it is a nontrivial task to match different records up without a single ID number across multiple records. That's the reason why agencies aren't supposed to use your SSN to identify you unless necessary. An SSN on every record would make it a cinch to tie all sorts of different information together for a single person.
Hey...Brits are already experimenting with checking in on the kids with in-home camera monitors. I see no reason why this couldn't be a reality soon.
Given that we, as a wider community, have tended to sit on our hands when our civil rights have been threatened, particularly in the past ten years...hoping to secure more security in the bargain, I assume...I would not be surprised if we allowed something all too close to come to fruition. I suspect that this will rebound upon us in some very unsavory effects, and I think that these ideas are amongst them.
Ordering a pizza in 2012....
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