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1. Government and private sector databases contain personal identifying information and historical records about residents of the US. Proposals for a national identification system arise regularly. Privacy advocates express concern about potential misuses of a national identification system. Considering this information with that from your textbook and external readings, please comment on the following: o Cite "pros and cons" stemming from a national identification system. o Will the benefits of a national identification system countermand violations of individual privacy invasive surveillance? o Cite programs and systems in use today posing threats to personal privacy and security. o What are the implications for the long term storage and later use of historical data? 2. Databases contain sensitive personal information about citizens and residents in the U.S. (and elsewhere). In decades past, this capability was largely under the control of the private sector. Insurance companies, credit reporting agencies, banks, and other commercial entities regularly compiled this data and shared it “for business purposes”. In the past, the threat to individual privacy stemmed from these sources (because of the perceived lack of controls). As well, citizens and residents worried about Governmental access to and abuses of privacy data. Today, we face different challenges. Now, the Government can access Governmental and key private sector systems easily stemming from integration efforts since 9-11 and the Snowden NSA revealations. New initiatives for oversight and surveillance are proposed regularly. This causes many to worry in our post 9-11/NSA environment that the Government has too much power that is too easily abused or misused. o Will privacy data matter in the future? o Is it already too late to control invasions of our privacy given the explosion of databases and surveillance technologies? o Will we continue to waive our rights from monitoring every time we agree to use a new technology? For example: cell phones used to be solely radio-telephones. Now, they have GPS' built into them making them personal tracking devices of movements. Example #2: future medical procedures will involve embedding novel technology devices in our bodies for monitoring, healing, etc. Insurance companies may require us to grant them access to all that we do with our bodies involving these novel tech. procedures to "cover their interests about our qualification for insurability"). 3. Discuss a current case involving privacy.
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Running head: NATIOANAL ID SYSTEMS

National Identification Systems and Personal Privacy and Security
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NATIONAL ID SYSTEM

The advantages and disadvantages of national identification system are as follows:
Pros include:
National identification is a more natural way of identification of individuals in the
society. Currently, many individuals are using a national ID card or driver’s license for
identification whereas one has to prove his or her identity without hassle. Airports and other
organizations use this form of identification. Additionally, it minimizes the waiting time in the
airports. Secondly, ID helps in immigration control in that national identification cards will
enable federal officers and border agents to examine the immigration status of an individual
quickly. When one is not able to issue a valid identification card most likely, it means that the
person did not legally enter the country.
Cons include:
Feasibility is the significant disadvantage that many countries are facing at the moment
since it is not possible to put implement a program or a system that will issue n...


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