The following video was produced by The Corbett Report and reposted at Alt-market
Half a century ago people had to be reassured their social security card was not being used for identification. Now there are federally standardized and globally synchronized ID cards, government-sponsored online ID projects, DNA databases, and even secret databases of your newborn baby’s genetic information and nobody bats an eyelid. How did we get here, and how can we break this conditioning?
My SSAN card from the early 1970s had the ‘not for identification’ printed on the front. Around the same time the ‘Privacy Act of 1974’ was passed.