I really don't. I'm honestly feeling like you are making this personal right now and I don't know why. Honestly.



Here's what I think you are saying. You are saying that NSA gathering information by spying is the same as a govt website asking you to use Experian to validate your ID? Is that correct? That's what I got before and that's what I get now. You are saying data collection is data collection, so both are the same thing.



But it's not the same thing.



The NSA is arguably unconstitutionally spying on us by gathering our records, without our knowledge and without proper warrants, and storing them for possible future use. They have no need for this. They are not gathering it in order to help us obtain something like a health insurance plan. They are not doing it at our request to obtain something. They are not asking us to give it to them. We have no knowledge of what they are really doing and they have no reason to be doing it.



The ACA website is asking us for ID verification only because we go on the site asking for something from them. They have a need to know who we are so they ask for us to provide something to verify that we are who we say we are. They are not spying in order to get info about who we are for no reason, they are asking you to verify who you are because you initiated a request through the website to obtain health insurance. When you get a passport you have to provide your birth certificate. They don't go spying in order to get your birth certificate for no reason, they ask you for it because you initiated the request for a passport and they want to verify who you are.



Those are two completely different situations. I don't really see how you think they are the same.



My initial post was that I think it's odd/bad or whatever I said that the govt is relying on a credit agency to verify who we are, you'd think they could do it themselves. It's surreal.



Other than that I don't know what to tell you. I really have no idea how this got so off track.





