In the UK, which I had assumed this article was targeted at convincing as the Guardian is a UK paper, we already have a very good online government portal for taxes, driver licenses, car registration, and loads of other things.
Taxes use your national insurance number. Drivers license things use your licence number. Car tax uses the car registration number. Not unified. Works fine.
In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver’s license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal.
I think they need to see gov.uk.
With the amount governments seem to be on the AI train I’m becoming more and more worried about the fall out when the hype bubble does burst. I’m really hoping it comes sooner rather than later.
Why do people have such trust that a national ID won’t be misused to further erode personal privacy? I have no idea why this policy is seen as at all positive.
(Any responses along the lines of “you’ve already lost your privacy” or “the government already has the data” won’t convince me. There wouldn’t be a push for a national ID if the scheme could be built out of the data the government already have)
It’s coming. He’s going to do it.
YOU’RE FIRED!
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that left mean anti-authoritarian. Left or right is an economic stance, and is orthogonal to beliefs surrounding government rights Vs population rights.
In one story they’re using PTX on Nvidia H800s. In another they’re on Huawei chips.
Which is it? Are we all just hypothesising?