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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

Found this on another forum relating to the ID card idea.....

Surprised they didn't just mandate a simple ID number tattooed onto one's arm - after all, it's simple, convenient, readily accessible using no special hardware and already been trialled, albeit some 70 years ago.

They could even start by choosing some segregated part of the community to be required to have an ID number in isolation. If the size of the sample is small enough any objections can be fobbed off as 'not representative of the wider community as a whole' after which another small segment could be targeted using the well known ploy 'but it has already been widely adopted by this other section of the community so you're not being singled out. On the contrary, we're being scrupulously fair by making sure you're being included too!'

As they say arbeit macht frei

The National Insurance number across the forehead could become a fashion statement.

Wasn’t there a trial in California some time back where people volunteered to have an implant in their arm, much like those ID tags for animals, that could be used for a variety of things, like banking?