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?

SHOW NOTES

Not for Identification Purposes (Just Kidding)

Freedom to Fascism

REAL ID Enforcement in Brief

ID Cards – intergovernmental cooperation in worldwide implementation

Microsoft Exec Calls For ‘Driver’s License For The Internet’

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

NIST’s program office on the government’s online ID strategy

State pilots test ID management for online services

Announcing the DNA Control Grid

GeneWatch.org on The UK Police National DNA Database

How DNA Is Turning Us Into a Nation of Suspects

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